And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

You can take a dog outside, but you can't make it pee

All of our thoughts – ideas – are traceable to a sensation, an encounter with the world that leaves an impression upon the mind.

Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?

Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

"All stories should be completely planned out from beginning to end."

When you love others you aren't nervous.

Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice.