I sometimes try to find a way around the truth [on this subject], but, honestly, I think most of it came from my mom playing piano in church.

I always knew that music was my first love. It was exciting when the modeling bit came about, because it’s a real girl thing to think that you can have a shot at something like that. I was trying to figure out how I would get from A to B. I knew that one way or another I would get to the music, but I didn’t know how. At 16, what are you thinking about anyway, except the day and month and year? The long-term plan is not intact.

With music, I just don’t worry about it. It is so [deep] in my heart that I figure, ‘What’s there to worry about?’ When a tennis player’s a great tennis player, if people find them good looking, then they’re a good-looking tennis player. But they can’t win unless they’re good.