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" Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen. "

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

" I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. "

" Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options. "

" I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive. "

" I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders. "

" I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me. "

" I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation. "

" I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly. "

" We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. "

" I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories. "

" The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself. "

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

" 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. "

" I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do. "

" Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal. "

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

" I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night. "

" 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. "

" In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. "

" I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm. "

" I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen. "

" 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. "

" I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything. "

" 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. "

" One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics. "

" 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. "

" When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.' "