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I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

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I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

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I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

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We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

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I love my heritage! I have my mother, who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

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I love my heritage!

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I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

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If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

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A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

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I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

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It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

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My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'

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If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

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I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

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Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

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When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.

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I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

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I love my legs.

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For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

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I have big everything on the bottom, but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours.

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I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.

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Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

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Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

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Soul music is timeless.

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And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.

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I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

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Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

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I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

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I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

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But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

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I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

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I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

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I'm very happy with my body.

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When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

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I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

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