It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

I'm just a regular 16 year old kid. I make good grilled cheese and I like girls.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

I've wanted one thing in my life. I don't want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains.

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