I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

I've wanted one thing in my life. I don't want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.

You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.