I want people to feel the emotion, try to relate to the way that I look or want to be like me in the way that I'm living or whatever.

All the gossip - I'm not about that at all. The drama.

My dad and I would perform around the Bay Area where I'm from in California together, and I also did talent shows growing up, I loved it.

I don't like to rush things.

I'm a perfectionist and I want everything to be amazing every single show.

Being anonymous, I thought I'd just release the music and see what happens organically.

I would not be able to sleep at night and I would practice my Grammys speech. That was definitely me.

It's really powerful to have a strong base that genuinely loves the music and plays it over and over again.

Seeing people Tweet my lyrics and really feeling for me, feeling what I'm feeling... in one of my lyrics I sing about 'the watch I just got for you,' and some girl was like, 'Yes! I bought him a watch!' I can be happy because these women feel me.

I was almost afraid to speak on the things I've dealt with as a woman.

Through the music, you can pretty much tell what I've been through and what I've accepted. And releasing it has made me realize I'm not alone in it, because of the reactions I've been getting.

I don't want people to love my music because of what I look like or who I know or whatever.

I'm so thankful that at this point, even if you see my face or know who I am, it doesn't matter, because you already love the music.

I plan on donating a bunch of guitars to different schools around the country. There could be a new Slash out there, there could be a new Lenny Kravitz.

My parents have very different tastes. They exposed me to so many different things. I represent both sides.

My dad had a cover band. They would rehearse in my living room while my mom was pregnant.

The fact that I can travel around the world doing what I love is such a blessing. I've learned that traveling is such an important thing; there's so many beautiful things out there and we get worried about such little things.

I always say that my music is my diary. It's very personal to me.

Sometimes I'll just go on my piano and just start playing what I'm feeling. It all depends on what I'm feeling at the moment.

I was a kid. I would go home and play instruments, and I would be at school on the playground the next day.

Some people want the attention, some people want the spotlight, and that just wasn't it for me.

I was like, 'Wow, Tommy Hilfiger wants to work with little old me.' All the dots connected, we had a meeting, and everything started to come together.

I'm all about comfort.

I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing.

Music is just in me and I didn't even realize it early on that I was going to do music.

I'm so emotional when it comes to even the smallest thing.

I've been singing love songs since I was a toddler, I was singing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and even Alicia Keys song, that helped my writing so much.

I will say about my fans, from day one they've been listening and are still listening to my projects on repeat.

I'm half-Filipino and Filipinos love karaoke.

After I graduated from high school, I was like, let's see what happens. I took the time to develop my artistry and my songs, and tried to figure out who I am and what my message is.

I was playing music since I was 6 or 7. I felt that music was a given to me.

I think most women, we have intuition. We always know what we always want to find out. We always want to be wrong, and we hate when we're right at the end of the day. People say we love to be right. That's not true. We don't like to be right, because usually we know when it's the truth.

It's one thing to be able to sing well, but another to be an artist and find your own voice within music. And that's what the goal was for me in my teenage years. I had to find myself.

I went to a Buddy Guy concert when I was, like, seven years old.

I just want to give back to the community that raised me now that I've gotten to a point where I can do that.

Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women.

I represent young black women, and I'm proud of that.

I'm huge on the dynamic of my show and the experience, not just performing songs. It's important to me to make sure that people experience every song, and feel like I'm singing directly to them. Your eyes never want to leave the stage because there's always something happening.

It took me a while to want to do interviews.

People always make me uncomfortable when they ask me: 'Who's this song about?' I feel like I let you read my diary and now we have to have a conversation about it! I already let you read it, let's just leave it at that.

I remember being really, really young and watching Prince and Michael Jackson concert DVDs. One of my favorites is Prince's 'Rave Un2 The Year 2000.'

My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while cooking breakfast in the morning.

One of the first CDs I ever bought was Alicia Keys's 'MTV Unplugged' album. That album is the one I would take home and listen to on my Walkman, in my room, before I had an iPod. I learned most of the songs on piano.

I love Toronto.

I write about other people's experiences from time to time.

I have to keep doing me. I have to not look at what everybody else is doing, or what everybody else thinks should be happening right now.

We use social media as a platform to speak on issues that we feel passionate about and I see people debating on Twitter all the time about social injustices.

I really wish I could have collaborated with Prince before he passed.

I definitely study the greats.

It's scary and uncomfortable releasing music that is close to you.