I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night.
I’m so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.
I love writing thank-you notes. There’s something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?
I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it’s like it was never there.
A development deal is an in-between record deal. It’s like, a guy saying that he wants to date you but not be your boyfriend. You know, they don’t wanna sign you to an actual record deal or put an album out on you. They wanna watch your progress for a year.
There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.
I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I’m not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I’m not – partying all the time.
People talk to me a lot about, “Why don’t you ever rebel?” And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is – is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they’re in the crowd.
If something happens to me, you’re going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.
The only thing I can’t control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can’t control that, I have to let it go.
I don’t have any interest in going out to clubs. I love people, and I love socializing, I just don’t have any interest in being drunk.
I’ve never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do.
I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.
People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that’s okay. As long as those adjectives aren’t train wreck, mess, terrible.
I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.
I like things that make me feel seven again. I don’t ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it’s just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.
I think that what people always want is what they don’t have a lot of.
I’ve stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that’ll ruin your day in a second.
I don’t drink much alcohol. If it doesn’t taste like candy or sparkles, I usually don’t drink it.
I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.