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When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.
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When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
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I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
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I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
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My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
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I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
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I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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Looking at it now.It all seems so simple.We were lying on your couch.I remember.You took a Polaroid of us.Then discovered (then discovered)The rest of the world was black and white.But we were in screaming color.And I remember thinking…
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
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I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.
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I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
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'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
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It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
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There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.
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There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.