I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.