I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

I was inspired a little while before The Voice to dye my hair half black half blonde by Cruella De Vil of 101 Dalmatians. One day I was watching it and I told my mom I was going to dye my hair like Cruella's, and she thought I was joking. I came home from the salon, and she didn't talk to me for a few days!

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.

I also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that's one of the most important things that I've taken out of that experience.

When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.

I'm pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It's definitely like a giant book with different stories in it. They are all very child-like but also a balance between light and dark.