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.

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.

Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

I never get tired of signing autographs 'cause I used to do it so much in class dreaming about the day that it might mean something to somebody.

I think your life is full of first loves because every time you love someone new, you love them in a different way.

I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.