One thing I like to talk about with most artists: What they were teased for or the crap they had to go through growing up. It happens to all of us in one way or another, and I think it's good to hear about how these people that you may look up to have coped with it in their life.

Grace VanderWaal is a girl WAY beyond her years. She's confident and sassy and crazy smart... so she's already got it figured out [mostly]. It wasn't always that way, though.

Grace said overcoming the things mean girls would say was the hardest thing she's ever accomplished... but that she thinks the word "bully" is overused. Listen below to hear why and how she became confident in her "unusual" look, and the sweet victory she felt at the end.