I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.

As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.

I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.

One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making everything from scratch.

I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.

I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people's music or other people's rhymes and writing my own.

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.