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I'm a big yogi.
I like to be supportive and a role model.
Make a little space, and get out of your own way.
I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile.
I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
I love Kelly Clarkson's message, and I've heard comparisons to P!nk.
I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.
I've noticed from my fans that we hide the things that we are facing.
I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
I'm one of those people at the airport holding a pillow like a little kid.
I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.
I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.
I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
You have to go create your own fire and people are going to come to you if you create it.
I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
I have learned that the fear and discomfort around there not being enough money is internal.
I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
I don't worry about money because I no longer have the fear mentality that I won't be provided for.
I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
I now know that me giving my all and giving my best will result in my needs being taken care of and provided for.
I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.
I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.
Once I figured out what I wanted to say in my music. As soon I recognized that and once I was living my truth, the money followed.
Now there are times when I have to make big decisions as I'm now running a company and that it's OK to go with being respected first.
Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.
I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.
When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.
I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.
'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.