Kidsday interviews Carly Rae Jepsen

We met one of our favorite singers, Carly Rae Jepsen, at the KFest at Dutchess County Stadium recently. We love her song "Call Me Maybe," and even got to sing it with her!

Oh, I was very excited. I remember thinking it was sort of surreal, and my girlfriend and me were together and we timed it and we did a living dance party together.

I do. I love writing. That's actually my favorite part of all this and I also like writing with other people. "Call Me Maybe" was written by myself and my two very best friends, Tavish Crowe, my guitarist, and Josh Ramsay from Marianas Trench.

As you can see I get a lot of help with makeup, and it's a good thing because I'm terrible at it. On my days off, you can find me with just no makeup and pajama pants at the grocery store. It's a very bad sight.

Oh, I would say, know what it is that is different and special about you and just hone in on that . . . . That is the thing that's going to take you far.

There are a few different artists that inspired me. When I was little, my parents took me to a couple of concerts. I saw Melissa Etheridge, she's kind of like a rocker, Sinead O'Connor is amazing as well.

No, I wasn't, but I wished I had been.

I do and I don't. My parents don't do it as profession, but my dad used to always play guitar for us before we went to bed . . . my brother and sister and I. And a lot of our family get-togethers would end off with big jam sessions with my uncle on guitar and my mom singing along.

Anything chocolate is fine by me.

People have asked me this before, and if I don't come up with my joke answer being Super Girl, then I'll come up with my real one and that's I would like to be a novelist because the thing I like about music is telling stories. It would be fun to do that if not through music then through actual pen and paper.

I do. I'm very competitive in sports. I actually grew up next door to my cousins who were all professional hockey players. Three Swedish boys. When I play, I play dirty. I use my elbows and everything in soccer. It's not a good idea.

I like outdoor venues. Like today is going to be really fun because the sun is shining and I get to just kind of be out in nature live performing and that's the best place.

I grew up in British Columbia, which is in Canada, and it was quite a small town. We actually only had one main street, and it was actually called Main Street. Yeah, so it was a lot different from the cities I'm visiting lately.

That's amazing to hear, but I think sometimes I take it on and I don't take it on because we're all imperfect, and I don't want to pretend I am.

He's a very nice guy and a very talented musician so I feel very fortunate to have been welcomed into his family. His musical family. It's very surreal every time that I see him. I can't believe it, to be honest.

I always have a little bit of a crush on John Mayer.

Sometimes it still makes me a little bit nervous, to be honest. But I think the first time it happened someone asked me, they said, 'You look like the Carly Jepsen girl.' It's so weird, and I ran. I'm getting more and more used to it.

It's very exciting. I love hearing that.

Actually I really liked gym class. I loved playing soccer. I think I was one of the only girls that wanted to get in there with the boys and play. Other than that I also liked drama class as well.

I do drive, but I'm a terrible driver. It's actually quite dangerous every time I get into a vehicle. I try not to do it too often. But if I do I drive, it's my boyfriend's car and it's a white car.

I don't know whether I want to star in a movie because that sounds like a lot of pressure. But it would be fun being in a movie one day. I'd just play like a side role. That would be fun.

I love to travel. I was recently in Paris and I was romanced by the city. We went to see the Eiffel Tower and believe it or not I saw a couple, a man proposed to a woman right in front of the Eiffel Tower.

I do like it. I haven't traveled too much in the tour bus lately. We've actually been flying from place to place. The tour bus is relatively a new idea, but those buses can be kind of cozy. You can set up your little house. It can be quite nice.

I love to sing. I was the type of little girl who was walking around with a tutu all the time and singing non-stop.

Well, right now because everything's so crazy when I'm the road, I like to have really relaxed free time. I love to cook, go for walks and just hang out with my family and my friends.