Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

You meet someone and it’s so much more than meeting them. It’s so much bigger and it’s like you’re enchanted by them.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

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.

My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.