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

I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.

Two years gives you enough time to grow and to change, and to, you know, change your priorities. Change where you live, change your hair, change what you believe in, change who you hang out with, what’s influencing you, what’s inspiring you. And in the process of all of those changes in the last two years, my music changed.

If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.

Right now I'm just single, but I'm really looking forward to the day when I'm happily single.

Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.