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" I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world. "

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" I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own. "

" My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside. "

" Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up. "

" I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things. "

" If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way. "

" I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy. "

" If you are not happy with something, you should change it. So I went to a lot of therapy, and finally, I am able to speak up for myself: You are going to hear me roar! "

" I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and also be a lovely husband and father. "

" The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write. "

" I can't be the candy queen forever. "

" I think we're all blessed with gifts and I was lucky I just found out what mine was early on and have planted that seed and tried to water it every day. "

" I still believe in love, most definitely. I'm just going to let that take the lead. "

" I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record. "

" When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view. "

" There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious. "

" I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world. "

" I just have so much love for my record label. "

" At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating. "

" Honesty has always worked for me. "

" I don't want to be above my audience; I want to be one with my audience. "

" My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere. "

" People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices. "

" I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more. "

" I've lived such a great, fantastic life already, but there's still so much more. "

" Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do. "

" I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens... I look up into the stars and I imagine: 'How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?' "

" I'm kind of a more sunshiny person myself. "

" One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms. "