I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

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

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

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.

My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream.

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