As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

It's sad how people want to see us females go against each other. Never been for that. Never will.

My biggest competition is me.

As soon as the doctor said I could start training again, I was on the treadmill the very next day. Once I got back into it, I worked out two or three times daily.

The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.

The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.

I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology.

There are those who say the music industry must adapt to a wired world. They point to the decades-long rise in CD prices, even as manufacturing costs came down, and to data that shows Napster may actually increase sales of CDs by music-hungry customers as evidence that the music industry is simply afraid of a new technology.