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" Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally. "

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

" 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 think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second. "

" I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about. "

" As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger. "

" 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 haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future. "

" Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months. "

" 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. "

" When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden. "

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

" I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels. "

" 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. "

" I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt. "

" I've always strived to be successful, not famous. "

" 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. "

" As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is. "

" People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. "

" I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met. "

" In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. "

" 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. "

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

" For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you. "

" When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore. "

" 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 I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive. "