"Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday."
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"I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out."
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"I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did."
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"Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it."
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"I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on."
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"I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'"
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"(Talks about Miley Cyrus 'I always thought I'd be really fun to sing a song with Miley."
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"I watched their reactions and emotions, especially to understand what was what I was doing wrong. But then I realized that if I could see these people and take note of everything I saw, I could write a good song."
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"I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it."
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"When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be, like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'"
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"I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs."
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"The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count."
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"I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times."
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"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."
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"The Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever."
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"Lady gagas "hair" is my theme song."
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"For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs."
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"(Talks about Lucky You) "The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different than everyone else. I think there's a long chorus of me singing "Do do do do do do do do do do". It's very young and I look back and it's kind of interesting to hear those kind of storylines and the lyrics that I used to write compared to the lyrics that I write now."
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"One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same."
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"I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live."
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