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" If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down. "

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" I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage. "

" 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. "

" I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write. "

" I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation. "

" I don't want people to think of me as sexy. "

" For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you. "

" 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. "

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

" 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've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music. "

" I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that. "

" My imagination is a twisted place. "

" I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist. "

" And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me! "

" My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting. "

" Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works. "

" One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter. "

" I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day. "

" When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.' "

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

" As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what. "

" I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that. "

" Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me. "

" I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it. "

" Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult! "

" I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage. "