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" 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. "

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" You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that. "

" I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out. "

" I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun! "

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

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

" I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief. "

" As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what. "

" Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy. "

" I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter. "

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

" I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane. "

" 'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer. "

" 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. "

" It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told. "

" If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house. "

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

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

" I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on. "

" Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met. "

" I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me! "

" Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me. "

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

" Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it. "

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

" I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it. "

" The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful. "

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

" I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you. "

" As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully. "