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I've always been a fan of Coldplay.
Music's always been a big part of my life.
I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.
I want to do a darker, pop soul kind of feel.
Everyone connects differently with different things.
It's so important to just be nice to everyone and be respectful.
I could not be more thankful to those who voted me through and believed in me.
Doing a song that's sassy but kind of has that little flair to it, it's very me.
Being on 'The Voice,' I have a voice. I'm speaking for my generation, and that's huge.
I'm just a hard worker, and I think that you don't need to have age to be a hard worker.
It's really important to me that the music that I release is true to me and important to me.
I am a very driven and hardworking person, and I am independent, and I feel that I have really good instincts.
I want to do music, and I want that to be the highlight of everything that I do. I want that at the forefront.
I wouldn't trade this experience for the world, and I hope I get to be a part of 'The Voice' for as long as I can.
I want to be my own artist and reflect my creativity.. I don't want to be turned into a pop princess; that's not who I am.
If everyone loves you for the person you are, let alone your music is incredible, I think that's a really great place to be.
I hate when I get pinned down to a genre. I have a sound, a lane I want to go down, but I never want to be stuck in my song choices.
I can't just sing karaoke; I can't do anything to try to sound like other people. I have to find what I naturally sound like and emphasize that.
I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.
I did theater when I was younger, and I'm not the best actor ever - I haven't done it in a long time - but hey, if an opportunity presented itself, I would take it!
There were a lot of really special moments for me. When I first sang 'Fix You' by Coldplay, that was one. I love that song so much, and I love Coldplay, and I love what the song meant.
Work hard, because it's obviously not always going to be easy. It's a really hard industry. Put yourself out there and put videos online, because that, honestly, is what changed my life.
I've grown up in a small town, and I played a lot of sports, so it was always between music and sports. People would ask me, 'What would you choose?' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'
The support from back home has been more than I ever expected. They always knew me as the lacrosse player or the girl playing field hockey. Now they're seeing me on national TV, and they've been so supportive.
When she started crying in my rehearsal, I felt so badly because I was like, 'I'm making Kelly Clarkson cry right now,' but it also felt really good because I thought, 'If she is feeling this, hopefully, America will feel this, too.'
There have been contestants on 'The Voice' from past seasons that didn't even win, and I have been so inspired by them. To think that I am now one of those winners? I really, really hope there is a little girl out there that is believing in herself and knows that she can be here.