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" When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill. "

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" All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years. "

" It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents. "

" 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. "

" I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about. "

" I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone. "

" 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. "

" When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise. "

" I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist. "

" 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. "

" There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory. "

" I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out. "

" 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 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. "

" I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test. "

" I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden. "

" I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head. "

" 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'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible. "

" Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult! "

" 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.' "

" If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down. "

" The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now. "

" I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails. "

" My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time. "

" 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. "

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

" What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream. "

" My imagination is a twisted place. "

" 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. "

" 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. "