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" 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. "

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" I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day. "

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" I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans. "

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" 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. "

" There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes. "

" 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. "

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" I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know. "

" 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. "

" Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes. "

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" 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 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. "

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" I always have to be writing. "

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" Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun. "

" '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. "

" I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. "

" If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it. "

" My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader. "

" For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music. "

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

" Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up. "

" I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience. "

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" Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less. "

" 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! "

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" I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that. "

" 'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them! "

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

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

" 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'm a songwriter. Everything affects me. "

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" I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. "

" 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. "