It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

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.