"I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember."
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"I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that."
"I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life."
"For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you."
"But I miss screamin' and fightin' And kissin' in the rain And it's two a.m. and I'm cursin' your name You're so in love that you act insane And that's the way I loved you."
"I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them."
"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.'"
"I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels."
"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."
"Hendersonville is home because I live there and I work there. But when I come back to Pennsylvania and see the crowds and the landscape, it's such a rush. It just feels like home."
"I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me."
"When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive."
"I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second."
"There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning."
"Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send."
"Even if something really hurt you, if it made you feel something it was worth it."
"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list."
"So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't."
"But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant."
"I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not."