Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.

In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am...because...you know...I don't really want to change it.

Yes! I did [grow up on a Christmas Tree farm], so this is a good season for me. I was too young to help with the hauling of the trees up the hills and putting them onto cars. So, it was my job to pull off the preying mantis pods off of the Christmas trees. The problem with that is if you leave them on there, people bring them into their house. I forgot to check one time and they hatched all over these people’s house. And there were hundreds of thousands of them. And they had little kids, and they couldn’t kill of them because that’d be a bad Christmas.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.