All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

When I hear that high-pitched sound of all those people screaming together, it's like, I want to get on stage right now. It's the most amazing feeling.

When I think about the things that cause me pain or the things that cause me trouble or frustration, it's not people asking for my autograph; it's people breaking my heart. That happens to you whether you've sold millions of records or whether you're taking classes at college. You're going to believe people when they say that they love you. I don't leave out details when I write songs about that. I try to make my songs as personal as possible because, ultimately, my music started out as just trying to turn my diary entries into something that was a piece of music. And that has never changed.

You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.

People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but the truth is you just never thought you’d ever lose it.

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.