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

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" Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months. "

" 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 spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief. "

" What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream. "

" I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. "

" The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count. "

" Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind. "

" 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've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine. "

" 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. "

" My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry. "

" I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future. "

" You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music. "

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

" I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun! "

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

" 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. "

" When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people. "

" I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone. "

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

" You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily. "

" 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. "

" People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened. "

" I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next. "