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" One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it. "

" When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.' "

" My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem. "

" 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. "

" It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you. "

" One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter. "

" 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. "

" There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there. "

" Katie Couric is one of my favorite people. "

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" I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore. "

" There's room for role models who make mistakes. "

" I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that. "

" When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears. "

" I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me. "

" For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them. "

" I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage. "

" When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people. "

" I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it. "

" 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 an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life. "

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

" When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did. "

" 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. "

" No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind. "

" When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.' "