You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.

I don't mind being compared to Whitney (Houston), there are people miles worse to be compared to.

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.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.