I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

Everything that happens to me gets put into a song. For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs. There, I don't hold back: names, dates, times, expressions on people's faces, exactly where we were and how it felt, what I wish I would have said to them in the moment. So I'm not only excited about sharing the songs with fans; I'm also pretty interested to hear the response from the guys I've written about on the record.

Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.

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