The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.

The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.

There's always that seventh-grade girl who looks like she's 25. And you're like, How do you do it? How do you do it, Sarah Jaxheimer?Why is your hair always so shiny?!

I slept in castles and fell in love because I was taught to dream" -

(Talk about Kelly Pickler)"She's like a sister.People say we're such opposites, but that's what makes us such good friends. She's incredibly blunt. I love that about her. If some guy has said or done something to me she doesn't like, she'll grab my cell phone and say, 'I'm deleting his number.

Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse.

There are beautiful things about both being in love and being out of love. I just think you have to find those things.