Artist Quotes

“'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 love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!”

“We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet”

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

“But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.”

“I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.”

“When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom.”

“Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.”

“I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.”

“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

“...we almost never speakI don't feel welcome anymorebaby what happened, please tell me?”

“But I say to Apple with all due respect, we don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.”

“Love is the one wild card.”

“They're [haters] just building you up to knock you down. But for me, they haven't.”

“There's room for role models who make mistakes.”

“I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.”

“Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.”

“I want to build a life with someone that's based on their dreams as well as my dreams. I think that the idea of finding another person to share with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life.”

“I think that being good to people - you'll never regret that. Maybe you'll get walked all over, maybe you'll get tricked, maybe you'll get fooled, but I think it's so much better to be kind to people and to trust people rather then to have your guard up and say mean things to people. You never want to be the reason that someone else feels bad.”

“I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.”

“Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.”

“I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”

“And for me, I guess the person who I tell everything that I'm going through is you. The fans.”

“I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.”

“I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)”