i dont want to be compared to britney,ashlee,hilary or lindsay. i want to be compared to me.

I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.

You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow.Blue skies, but the sun isn't comming out, no. Today, it is like I'm under a heavy cloud." Avril Lavigne (Runaway)

I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics.

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

Why do you have to go and make Things so complicated.

Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.