I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.