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" You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men. "

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" If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works. "

" 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. "

" I think that you can love people without it being the great love. "

" 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. "

" Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light. "

" I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you. "

" When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that. "

" At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again. "

" I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines. "

" I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage. "

" My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything. "

" People don't usually compliment your character. "

" For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under. "

" 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. "

" I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot. "

" You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents. "

" 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 base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write. "

" All you need to do to be my friend is like me. "

" I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did. "

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

" 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. "

" The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count. "

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