The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.

I've never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

being open isn't the same as being weak.