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" Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review. "

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" 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? "

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

" '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 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 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. "

" 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 look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful. "

" 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 believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern. "

" So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me. "

" Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious. "

" It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.' "

" I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing. "

" I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table. "

" There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it. "

" When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts. "

" For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values. "

" 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. "

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

" I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.' "

" 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. "

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

" I think who you are in school really sticks with you. 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.' "

" One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable. "

" When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster. "

" I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine. "

" The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call! "

" Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity. "

" I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you. "

" Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of. "