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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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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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Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
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Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Something's gone terribly wrong,You're all I wanted.Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Can't breathe whenever your gone,Can't turn backNow I'm haunted.
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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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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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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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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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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've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.
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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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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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I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.
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I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
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All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
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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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If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.
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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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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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Now I'm standing alone in a crowded roomAnd we're not speaking.And I'm dyin' to know:Is it killing youLike it's killing me?Yeah.I don't know what to say since a twist of fate, when it all broke downAnd the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
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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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When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
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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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I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.