Jamie Lynn Spears

Of course, you want to be respected by your peers, and you want people to connect to you as an artist, but for me, it's more about staying true to myself and doing something I believe in and focusing on that.

On the performance end, I take a lot of advice from my sister.

Truthfully, my childhood was so fun. Everything was new, and everything was like Christmas because we were just from this small town, and my sister had amazing success. It was so amazing to see my sister reach such heights.

I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom.

That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists.

I would say the only thing I may change is that my whole family could live in Louisiana. That would be nice if all our houses were a block away from each other. That, to me, would be the best thing in the entire world.

It's a different process for me, but it's really cool to hear someone else singing the song that you wrote.