I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

(Talks about her childhood) I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

It's not our job to make people like us if they don't.

Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.

One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life.

I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.