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You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
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Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
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Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
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I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.
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I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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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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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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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.'
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
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All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
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When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
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If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.
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Because these thingsWill change.We can see it now.These wallsThat they put up,To hold us backWill fall down.It's a revolution,It's how we'll become.Who we'reSupposed to be.We'll sing hallelujah;We'll sing hallelujah.Oh.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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I don't know about you but I'm feeling 22.Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you.You don't know about me but I bet you want to.Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we're 22, 22.