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" I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves. "

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" One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle. "

" 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.' "

" I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that. "

" I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember. "

" When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.' "

" People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me. "

" Faith Hill is a big role model. "

" There are no rules when it comes to love. "

" It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy. "

" I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart. "

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

" One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same. "

" You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men. "

" One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable. "

" Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it. "

" Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. "

" On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die. "

" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "

" It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg. "

" I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on. "

" I always have to be writing. "

" Katie Couric is one of my favorite people. "

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

" And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate. "

" I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that. "

" I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid. "

" I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me. "

" When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that. "

" Love is the one wild card. "