I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

We all dream about love, want to be in love, and have been hurt by love.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go

It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not understand why. I felt excluded. Some days, the majority was in high school and did not know who to talk to. And that is something really terrible when you're twelve years old.