I moved to the bright, dreamy lights of New York from Las Vegas, Nevada when I was 18 - legal enough to buy cigarettes but not nearly legal enough for the sleeplessness that is New York City. I had a few things under my belt - 14 years of classical piano lessons, a brief stunt on America’s Most Talented Kids when I was 12 (performing an original song), followed by magazine spreads in TRACE, CosmoGirl, and Seventeen, a weekend writing songs on the John Lennon Tour Bus with will.