I don't want people to think of me as sexy.

I find it relatively easy to keep my clothes on because I don't really feel like taking them off. It's not an urge I have. For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. That's putting myself out there, maybe even more than taking my shirt off.

Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric.

Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.