A lot of people don't know that you released a gospel album early in your career. What changed your sound?
There was no like overnight switch. It's just one of those things where everybody grows up from 15 to 23. I'm very happy to be where I came from and love my family and my parents, [but] I live on my own, and I make choices for myself, and I'm an adult, and I feel like I see the world everyday in a bigger picture. I just started singing about my life and whatever went on in it. I've never been a very censored girl -- even when I was a kid, I was always saying what I felt, and I think that's just grown even more so [over time].

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