I always kind of say to people, don't believe the hype. You are never as good as what they say; you are never as bad, and remember that you do it just to make you happy and to enjoy it.
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I'm writing all the time when I'm at home. When I'm on the road, I just get ideas, and I put it on my iPhone.
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I know what makes me connect to my music - it is knowing that I am not alone in my feelings and my thoughts.
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My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.
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The piano represents home to me. It represents a place where I can heal - the sound of it, the feel of it, the way it looks.
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The thing is, I'm not really a great pianist at all. But if God said I could either sing or play piano, and which would it be? I would definitely choose the piano.
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When I was a little girl, my family was extremely close, loving and really happy, and then overnight, things just became a nightmare, and instead of them becoming a nightmare and getting better, they became a nightmare and just kept getting worse.
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I ran away at 15 to chase a guy that I met who would become my boyfriend, and he was living in L.A.
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I wrote my first song when I was four, and I played it at my piano recital.