"You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain."
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"But you held your pride like you should've held me"
"You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing."
"Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends."
"Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me."
"My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate."
"At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again."
"I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic."
"I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it"
"I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day."
"Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we're 22."
"I'm just glad we live in a world where girls can play soldiers."
"While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye [west] on the phone call, you cannot 'approve' a song you haven't heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination."
"When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. And if I have a chance to matter to the growth and hopes and wishes of little girls, that's something I can't take lightly. So I do factor them in when I'm thinking about what to wear, and what to say, and whether or not to go out to bars even thought I'm not twenty-one."
"Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place"
"I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest."
"Wow I can't belive I won. This is awesome. Don't trip and fall. I'm gonna get to thank the fans, this is so cool. Oh, Kanye West is here. Cool haircut. What are ya doing there... Ouch... I guess I'm not gonna get to thank the fans."
"When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about."
"Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs."
"I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I’ve started painting more. I’ve been working out a lot. I’ve started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I’ve never been closer to that."