My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

That’s always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think they’re just never going to hurt you, then they do. That’s when you get the worst heartbreak.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there.

I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.