People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

Keeping your emotions all locked up is something that’s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.