You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.

It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

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.