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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
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Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.
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You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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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.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
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I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
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I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.
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Someday I'll be livin' in a big old cityAnd all you're ever gonna be is mean.Someday, I'll be big enough so you can't hit meAnd all you're ever gonna be is mean.Why you gotta be so mean?
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
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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.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.