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

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think that had a lot to do with me wanting write. And write songs

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

Winter = baking season. It's on.

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 would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.