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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

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 wanted to be someone who wanted to produce music, and here I am, and I'm happy about it.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'