I caught Colbie right before her performance on Conan O'Brien's show, and we had a chance to talk about her amazing rise in pop music. Down to earth and cautiously confident, Colbie was a delight to talk to.

What was it like growing up with rock royalty like Fleetwood Mac?

"My dad produced Rumors and Tusk back in the 70s. Back then when I was growing up I didn't know that Fleetwood Mac was such a big deal and that my dad was cool. I thought he was cool in other ways, but not musically."

"The thing about working with your dad is great in so many ways, but the problem is you can never turn it off; you can go home or on vacation and you are always talking about work. Sometimes its nice to have your family there to get away from work, and that makes it hard sometimes."

You were the first myspace celebrity with actual talent! (Talking to you, Tila Tequila!)
People found you, myspace really helped you out...

"Honestly, my career really started with myspace. A friend uploaded my songs for me, and made my website, my fans found me from all over the world, and sent my music to their friends, and my songs were getting so many plays a day that I became the number one unsigned artist, and soon after that I got the record deal.

37 million page views and counting?

"Kind of crazy, yeah."

How involved was she before the millions of fans on myspace?

"I was addicted. Addicted. First thing in the morning, for hours, then lunch, then back online, after dinner, then on all night. Checking messages, e-mails, respond to people.
My days are crazy when I'm on tour, I can't do it like that any more, but I am on twitter, and keep people updated that way."

"I had so many jobs, too many jobs, because I get bored... I decided I didn't want to work here, I'll work somewhere else that is more fun; a receptionist, health food stores, gyms, temp agency. My favorite job was Home Depot, actually. It was so much fun! Everyone there was really cool. So many different departments, we were all friends. I was in decor."

Falling For You is on the charts, you've had a song in the charts for well over a year now. I asked Colbie how she was feeling about her career... "It's so amazing that my songs are played all over the world, I don't get to hear my songs very often on the radio. It's such an honor that Falling For You is doing so well."

I asked Colbie about hearing herself on the radio.

"The first time I heard Falling For You, I was in my car, alone, on my way to Starbucks... My friends had all told me they heard it, was so excited that I actually heard it!"

Bubbly, her first hit, was played constantly on pop and adult contemporary radio... one of those we may have heard too often, but now we don't mind hearing it again, I told her I think that's a sign of a strong song... "Thank you," she said, "that's something that I worry about... when songs get played so much. I know people can get so sick of songs, I get sick of some songs, it's cool to know that people can still hear it."

Colbie has that catchy duet going on with Jason Mraz, Lucky... "Jason is amazing, it's funny... we actually wrote that song via e-mail, without ever having met. He got my contact info from my management, and sent me an e-mail, and told me about this song idea, and asked if I'd help him finish writing it. We wrote it together over a few weeks, then I flew to London and recorded it with him."

Ms. Caillat toured with John Mayer last year, and I asked her what that was like, and the excitement in her voice was genuine...

"A dream come true. John is one of my biggest inspirations, I love all three of his albums and when got the offer to tour with him, I just couldn't believe what was going on in my life. This was another dream come true, actually happening. Getting to learn from him, how he performs on stage every night and interacts with the crowd, makes them laugh. I really learned a lot from him."

I agreed that John is known as a super-talented young guy, he just gets it. "You know, he really does, he knows all aspects of his career," she agreed.

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