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" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots. "

" I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves. "

" 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. "

" 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 get nervous for everything - literally everything. "

" 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 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. "

" I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play. "

" I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. "

" For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs. "

" A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out. "

" When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about. "

" If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation. "

" I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that. "

" 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 don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free. "

" I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling. "

" Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me. "

" People don't usually compliment your character. "

" I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me. "

" If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works. "

" I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me. "

" I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them. "

" I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging. "

" I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did. "