I want to encourage people to be themselves and express themselves however they want.

I wrote about scenarios that I was going through and then disguised them.

Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.

Working on this album has been very emotional and super personal, and creating this character 'Cry Baby' helped me deal with my own insecurities.

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

To me, I absolutely cannot stand Twitter. I hate it more than anything.

I was always called a cry baby, and I was one. I cried a lot as a child. In fact, I still cry a few times a day. I'm still a cry baby.

I didn't have any real idea that I was going to be an artist; I had no idea what that meant.

I'll always cling to these little girl dresses at vintage shops, and I can never wear them because they're so tiny!

I've always written the storyboards for the music videos, and it's been hard working with directors trying to get them to understand what I'm thinking.

I'm a perfectionist, and even if something comes out great, it's still not perfect, you know?

I'm just happy I got to express who I am as an artist and touch people's hearts.

I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.

I always try, when I'm singing songs, to interpret them the way that I would've arranged them. I think about the melody first, and then I pull out my guitar and start singing it.

My parents were super strict, so I didn't have a lot of freedom to hang out at parties or anything like that. I didn't get invited, and I didn't have many friends.

When I'm done with my last album, I want to make a movie with Tim Burton telling the story of all of the albums connected. That's my biggest dream.

I wanted to play my original music, but it was really hard because a lot of the people who would come out to the shows found out about me through 'The Voice' and wanted to hear covers.

It's one thing to ask for a picture, but to just take a picture of me is kinda weird, guys.

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go about making an actual career.

I have a song called 'Training Wheels,' and it's about being in love with someone and taking it to the next level by taking off the training wheels.

I always cling to things that remind me of being a kid again.

When I started, I was very unsure of who I was. There were a lot of things in the songs that I didn't realize I was saying. But more and more, it fell into place... I got more comfortable in my skin.

I like scaring myself.

Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation that either I was going through or someone else in my life was going through.

My two favorite parts of what I do are definitely writing the music and then writing and directing the videos to support each song. As well as doing my own makeup and styling for the videos.

I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in my head while writing the music in the first place.

I've always been a fan of telling honest stories.

I wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn't want to sing other people's songs at shows.

I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.

Growing up, I always took things too personal and was very emotional, and I got made fun of for it.