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

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

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

" One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead. "

" I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines. "

" I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives. "

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

" It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told. "

" I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point? "

" I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be. "

" 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. "

" I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors. "

" I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me! "

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

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

" I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me. "

" I love Wiz Khalifa. "

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

" When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour. "

" I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating. "

" As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully. "

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

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

" Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page. "

" And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate. "

" Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met. "

" I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs. "

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

" Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. "

" I think that you can love people without it being the great love. "