Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

I want to build a life with someone that's based on their dreams as well as my dreams. I think that the idea of finding another person to share with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life.

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

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.

I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

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