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" 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. "

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" It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles. "

" I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head. "

" 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 don't really know that much about love, it turns out. "

" When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about. "

" I love Wiz Khalifa. "

" I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives. "

" I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar. "

" But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant. "

" When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden. "

" I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60! "

" I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden. "

" I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce. "

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

" Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. "

" I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen. "

" I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons. "

" I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one. "

" I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them. "

" I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet. "

" I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that. "

" I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics. "

" I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you. "

" When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes. "

" All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years. "

" I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful. "

" Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options. "

" I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back. "

" Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing. "

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