I meditate and try to walk outside daily. I prefer to now spend my time with people that I know truly care about me and are there for me at the end of the day - through the ups and downs - because that is what life is about.

When things are very real and honest, they don't go away.

Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, "Thank you, I love you guys," or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.

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

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

I appreciate everything that I have, versus taking it for granted.

If something is meant to be, it's gonna work. If two people believe in something really strongly, I think a longdistance relationship is easy. They just make the time to be together. And you have to remember that any relationship is going to be hard...mostly because you're two different people and you have to figure stuff out.