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	For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.   
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	I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.   
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	I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.   
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	I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.   
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	I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.   
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	On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.   
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	Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.   
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	I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.   
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	I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.   
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	All of my songs are autobiographical.   
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	My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.   
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	I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'   
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	I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.   
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	I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.   
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	I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.   
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	I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.   
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	I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.   
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	No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.   
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	Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.   
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	I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.   
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	'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.   
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	My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.   
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	I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.   
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	My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.   
