As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Once you think about it, aren't the people who are living their lives without worrying about other people's opinions having more fun than those judging them?

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

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.