Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's "deep" or "complicated." But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem....

I want to build a life with someone that's based on their dreams as well as my dreams. I think that the idea of finding another person to share with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life.

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not.

I stay out too late, got nothing in my brain.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.