"It's so exciting. Everything is going so well."
"I remember singing for the ladies in the nail and hair salon my mama and aunt used to go to. They'd give me a dollar to sing and then I wouldn't stop. Then they'd be like, 'OK, kid, shut up'."
"I try not to style myself after anybody. I'm just trying to be myself."
"The video takes place in a school and basically the camera ... is the boyfriend, so I'm basically telling off the camera."
"It's [the video is] very colorful, and there's a lot of Boston references like Fenway High 'cause, you know, I'm from Boston, so I had to represent. ... It's kind of declaring your independence, girl power."
"It was really scary...but it felt fulfilling, like it was right. ... I think [Cosby] was a little surprised because I was a little girl singing Aretha Franklin, and I think he really liked it."
"Everything happened so fast. I recorded the album and worked with so many great people. ... We'd have secret handshakes and eat junk food. And it was a lot of work, too, [but] I just had so much fun."
"I think last summer was the best summer of my life, and I get kind of teary-eyed just thinking about it"
I would be writing songs in my notebook in school, when I really should have been thinking about math but I wasnt. I was always thinking about music.
Leave(Get Out) is just basically a song for all girls to declare their independence. Because, as I'm sure all females can relate to, boys will be boys at any age.
If I were a cookie I would be...oh my God, I have it, okay! I would be a sugar cookie with the M&M's inside, like the colorful M&Ms because I'm colorful and I'm sweet like sugar, and um, I like those cookies.
I was like...Oh my God! I had a little teenage moment there.
This is my life and this is what I love to do and it's my passion, and if I was doing anything else I think I would drive myself crazy.
Trunks, please! Please wear your trunks boys. (when asked which is better, speedos or swim trunks)
