I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

Every girl on the planet has insecurities. It helps me to know that some of the most beautiful people in the world wake up some days and don't think they're pretty. As sad as that is, it's good to know that a problem you think is your own is actually something every girl faces. Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.

But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

I stopped reading articles about myself. Even if it's not bad, I think actively caring about people's daily perception of you makes you second-guess everything. I am very happily not paranoid right now.