My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you.

(Talking about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the inspiration I needed. Everything I wrote (at that time) came from that experience, what I observed happening around me.

But you held your pride like you should've held me

You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.