Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me.... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before.

I was in a love that was wonderful until it was terrible, and both people got hurt from it.

I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.