People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.

I'm visually stimulated, so I watch TV, movies, even Pinterest. A song could come from something as simple as being words splashed across a billboard or changing everyday turns of phrases.

I like to think of myself as the people's pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I'm just not that - as much as I'd love to have that sort of mystique, I think I'm kind of an open book.