I watched so many matches of Jarnail Singh, P.K. Banerjee, Chuni Goswami and Peter Thangaraj.

I'm just gonna keep growing as an artist, and I'm excited to work with different people and learn from all these other talented, creative people that I've been around. It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!'

I haven't even had to learn, but it's just this natural thing to be able to express any emotion I have through the tone of my voice.

I think, probably when I was 15 or so, I was going through a really hard time with my family, and I just felt really helpless - I didn't know how to put anything I was feeling into words, and I was really confused, and I felt like nobody would hear me, but I didn't even know what to say.

Growing up, I listened to a lot of everything - I fell in love with music, when I discovered people like Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman, people whose voices I could really feel, people with a lot of soul. That's what I'm drawn to as a musician: Anybody that has their own voice and their own point of view.

What people would qualify as R&B is, for me, just soul. And I love honesty and soul and heavy, crunchy beats that move you and make you breathe a little bit faster.

Twitter and those platforms just didn't feel natural to me.

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

It's a big thing in my music to highlight being human - being emotional and powerful, like a goddess.

I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.

A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am.

I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is so unique.

With 'Someone New', I was at my rawest, and I didn't want to cover it up. And same with 'You Should Know' and 'Under the Table.' I wanted it to be the lyrics and the chord progressions, and the intricacies of the guitar of 'Someone New' are so delicate, sometimes that's all you need.

Every human is so layered. And 'Brain,' that theme is about - I'm just such a sensitive person, and I can pick up people's energies.

I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

Once I discovered music and that you don't need to just use words but can add a growl to the melody, that releases so much more. I never want to make music for any other reason.

It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.

'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.

When I do things that don't feel pure or make any moves that I don't feel like represent me or who I am, it makes me feel like I wanna throw up. So I just do me, and I guess people just take that how they do.

I like feeling fresh and having really dewy skin. I like feeling moisturized and having a good brow.

One of my favorite things is to try delicious different fruits from different places, in Japan or other places that have different fruits you can't get in the States.

The most personal thing about me is my music. The most honest, pure thing in my whole life.