TIFFANY DARWISH

For the kid in me that had a rockier edge and wanted to be Stevie Nicks, it's been fulfilling that I've met Dave Navarro and Dave Grohl, these amazing artists that have given encouragement.

When you become a mega-icon overnight, there's no way to keep that intensity continually going.

Music should be fun. If it's not fun, then you're going to get burned out; you're not going to give the best show.

I'm a big Miley Cyrus fan. I think she's really awesome.

Hopefully, I've established a career, but you can be a big sensation one day, and the next day everyone's going, 'Who? ... Who?'

I'm a real girl. I get it. I gain weight, I lose weight. My styles change.

I've always loved country music.

New Jersey was like home for me the first time I was there.

I am an old soul: I do know so much about music history.

'I Think We're Alone Now' is one of the all-time great songs.

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

From the time I was 2, I told my mom I was going to be a singer. And she'd say, 'Sure, honey, and tomorrow you'll want to be a dancer.'

I came to Nashville in the early '90s, and I thought, 'OK, enough is enough. I write songs; I just don't have the backbone to show it to anybody. I want to go to Nashville and learn how to properly write a song.'

Obviously, I wore a lot of crazy things on stage. That's just how it goes.

I'd still rather be singing on stage than doing anything else.

I think of God as, well, sort of a friend or something I need. Like the way I need my fans.

I want to take acting lessons first. But I'd love to find the right film, a 'Breakfast Club' kind of thing.

I don't need a security guy pushing my fans around.

I'm all about showing people what I can really do in country music. Give me a mic and let me perform, and I'll prove it to you.

My body - it's become, as I get older... not my friend.

I grew up on the West Coast during the '80s. But I wasn't a 'valley girl,' since I grew up in Norwalk, which was filled with Latina girls.

People do think I was a one-hit wonder, that I'm maybe not the kind of singer that I can really be - that impression is there. I have to work really hard to break down those walls.

I'm thankful for what I've got, but I'm cramming all my money into a trust fund because I don't ever want to look around and wonder where all my money went.

I've always really been a big fan of rock music. I wanted to record rock music when I was 14 or 15, but I was too young; it would have been ridiculous.

I've always wanted to be a singer, since as far back as I can remember.