There’s part of our brain that we shut off when we’re in the studio. There’s part of our brain that we turn on when we are out doing an interview or promoting something or waking up at six in the morning for hair and makeup.
I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.
I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.
I do explore the emotion every once in a while. I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
Wasn’t it beautiful when you believed in everything?
Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.
There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.
I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
This is the last time I’m asking you this, put my name at the top of your lsit. This is the last time I’m asking you why. You break my heart in the blink of an eye.
As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.
It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn’t match the reality.
I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.
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.
You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.
You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.
Promise me this, that you’ll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine.
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.