"A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums."
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"I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back."
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"I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me."
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"The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me."
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"(Talks about a school production) 'There was one solo; but it was a guy. It was this character called 'Freddy Fast Talk' and it was the bad guy. I didn't care, I was like I will dress up like a guy, I want to sing that song. And so I remembered we drew on eyebrows, and I had like a moustache,and we put all my hair up in this hat. So I dressed like a guy and sang the solo."
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"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane."
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"Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less."
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"I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me."
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"I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go."
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"I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out."
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"I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one."
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"Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse."
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"Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans."
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"So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way-- listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos….Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love."
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"If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things."
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"My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella."
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"I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs."
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"'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer."
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"It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told."
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"Well, you stood there with me in the doorway, my hands shake, I'm not usually this way. But you pull me in and I'm a little more brave. It's the first kiss, it's flawless, really something, it's fearless."
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