It doesn't bother me that people think that Blake Shelton made me go country, because I can understand it. My immediate past is pop-rock, and people don't know a ton about me as a kid - yet. They will soon.

I feel like Nashville has really embraced me with open arms. I was a little worried at first; you know, everybody knows about my immediate past, which is rock music. But everyone is coming to find out that I've been singing country music my whole life.

I do care about what people think about me sometimes, and sometimes it affects me in a negative way.

A few girls would be catty and say that my voice sounded really high, and I sang like a chipmunk, I got a few prank calls about that a few times. But it didn't really bother me that much. I think I was so focused on music that nothing could break me or get in my way.

I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.

I had always dreamed of starting off in pop radio and crossing into country. I used to sing country; that was my genre when I was a kid.