A development deal is an in-between record deal. It's like, a guy saying that he wants to date you but not be your boyfriend. You know, they don't wanna sign you to an actual record deal or put an album out on you. They wanna watch your progress for a year.

Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric.

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

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

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