A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.

Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do breathing exercises, per se, but I definitely have to have a sort of internal word with myself before things got completely out of hand and I fainted on the floor.