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" Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more. "

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" One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics. "

" I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.' "

" Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of. "

" In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. "

" I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone. "

" All of my songs are autobiographical. "

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" I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record. "

" If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens. "

" My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from. "

" I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be. "

" The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me. "

" I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me. "

" As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what. "

" 'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up. "

" I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much. "

" I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs. "

" Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works. "

" I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails. "

" For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values. "

" Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again. "

" I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one. "

" For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs. "

" I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do. "

" All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends. "

" I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8. "

" Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. "

" You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it. "

" Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me. "

" I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse. "