My goal is to appeal to as many people as I can. I'm not looking to leave country, but I do want to have more international success.

My divorce was like a death - a genuine death of commitment and love. After I got over the shock, I was like, tell me theres some way we can save this. We can save this, right?

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

Criticism is always going to be painful. You live through it. I'll live through it now. It's even harder when you're younger. You don't have the maturity. You're still developing. If you get damaged while you're developing, it's a psychological battle after that. Today, if I get the criticism, I'm not bothered...if I wear the wrong thing, I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Maybe when I was younger, I might have been more affected by that.

When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

I can still hear the words you whispered when you told me I can stay right here forever in your arms from Forever and for Always