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" I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues. "

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" 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. "

" 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 am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life. "

" At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again. "

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

" I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music. "

" I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out. "

" If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house. "

" It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way. "

" When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control. "

" I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you. "

" I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning. "

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

" I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible. "

" When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did. "

" I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear. "

" I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her! "

" I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol. "

" As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is. "

" I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. "

" I know my flaws before other people point them out to me. "

" Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places. "

" '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. "

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

" I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it. "

" 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. "

" I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt. "

" I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are. "

" Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. "