It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

If you just believe in me. I will love you endlessly.

I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.

The fans never send me crazy things. They send me things that they put so much time and effort into making, and they are so amazing. You have to see them!

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.