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" 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. "

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" I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.' "

" As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger. "

" 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. "

" Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally. "

" If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works. "

" I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12. "

" I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day. "

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

" Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him. "

" 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. "

" Katie Couric is one of my favorite people. "

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" For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. "

" But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under. "

" 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. "

" I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it. "

" There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory. "

" My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always. "

" I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans. "

" If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be. "

" I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore. "

" 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. "

" 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've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you. "

" I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night. "

" People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. "

" 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. "

" 'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them! "

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

" I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter. "

" I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me. "