There are definitely people I respect and I love their music, but there was never really an artist that I said, 'I want to be just like them, I love the way their career is going. I love their music.' It wasn't really like that. I wanted to be like myself.

Andre [Recke] and I and my mom worked very hard to really get good music that I related to and was age-appropriate for me and wasn't just cheesy pop stuff.

I love writing, but I feel like you need time to really get in touch with yourself to do that. On [Metamorphosis], I would have liked to have had more time to …

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right…