I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I'm not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I'm not - partying all the time.

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.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric.

Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.

You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.

We don't wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.