The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.

I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.