Songwriter Quotes

“If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.”

“I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.”

“Happy,Free,Confused,Lonley at the same time.”

“Through it all nobody gets me like you do.”

“I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'”

“Never never never compare yourself to the beautiful girls. There's always someone gorgeous who will make you feel like you're not. It's a total confidence buster!”

“I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.”

“You are just too young to believe that everything is not going to be okay.”

“Your success, your life, your happiness. Don't let mean people bring that down.”

“'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.”

“When you’re young you just run, but you come back to what you need.”

“I love conversations with kids in the meet and greet lines — little people with little voices! I love babies. Someday I would love to be a parent, but I want that time to come when I’ve experienced so much of the world. My life will be devoted to making that child’s life as wonderful, beautiful, magical and perfect as it can possibly be. I want to wait until there is no ounce of me left that has anything self-centered to experience.”

“I slept in castles and fell in love because I was taught to dream" -”

“Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend.”

“Sometimes the people you thought would be there forever somehow aren't.”

“All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.”

“If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.”

“Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.”

“When you see something bad happening out in the world, you should try to help in whatever way you can.”

“Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.”

“Time will break all of the old habits and create new ones for you, and in the process, you will try to handle this immense pain with dignity (because you're that kind of girl). You actually will have to move on and you actually will be fine and that's when he may actually miss how incredible and special you are.”

“You better lose yourself in the music”

“I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.”

“There's a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can't even talk about it.”

“I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.”