Artist Quotes

“I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.”

“I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are”

“Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual.”

“I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.”

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

“Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think.”

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

“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.”

“Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.”

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

“We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.”

“Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall out”

“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 don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine”

“'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.”

“At a certain point, if you chase two rabbits, you lose them both.”

“I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are going to obsess over who it's about, because they think they have all my relationships mapped out. But there's a reason there are not any overt call-outs in that song. My intent was not to create some gossip-fest. I wanted people to apply it to a situation where they felt betrayed in their own lives.”

“I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.”

“I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.”

“your hands are tough but there mine belong in”

“Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.”

“I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.”

“My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting. That's just a phase I've been in lately. I don't think this should be how i proceed in life. It's important to be self-aware about these things because you don't want to end up with that guy.”

“The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.”

“I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time”