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" I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them. "

" Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again. "

" 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. "

" 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 have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels. "

" If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered. "

" As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger. "

" I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it. "

" 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. "

" Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing. "

" 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. "

" Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans. "

" I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect. "

" I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me. "

" I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me. "

" I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway. "

" When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening. "

" If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it. "

" 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. "

" It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed. "

" I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood. "

" The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful. "

" Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted. "

" 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. "