I thought, "That's perfect!" I wasn't even shy to do it. I was all about it immediately. It was hard the first couple of malls we appeared at, because the kinks hadn't really been worked out. There were a lot of times that we'd get there on a Friday afternoon -- I'd fly out after school and go to some place like Ohio and set up this little stage. We had, like, a little upgraded boombox, basically, a little system and a mic. I'd start singing, and a lot of the retail around us would just be in an uproar. They'd be like, "You're too loud, I have a jewelry store..." So there were a couple times where I ended up crying, but being young and wanting to sing, I was very resilient. I was like, "Okay, let's wipe off the tears. Thirty more minutes." The more I started having a following and my age group liking it, the more I just loved the idea of doing the malls. It was really hard to see that they had to come to an end. It was great to be that successful, but it was really hard to see that the intimacy that we once had at the malls, to be able to just go have a slice of pizza and get to know people -- I really made a lot of friends, actually, on the mall tour, who are still my friends to this day. I was just a little girl;