Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.
Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.
My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.
You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.
I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.