"Stars can't shine without darkness."
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"I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella."
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"I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl."
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"I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that."
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"I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied."
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"I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food. I always need to have a heater at my feet, and I drink this thing called Cool Brew, which I found in Louisiana. It's like condensed coffee."
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"I'm going to become a real professional actress."
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"I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal."
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"Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company."
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"As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours."
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"I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied. People are like, "You've got all these number ones!" "Yeah...what else?" It all translates into money, and that's how people think of being successful, but my success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy."
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"My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy."
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"I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird."
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"Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished."
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"I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it."
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"I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow."
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"You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar."
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"Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing."
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"Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new."
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"I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat."
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