If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.

Everybody got their something.

My first love thinks that I'm too young. He doesn't even know. Wish that I could show him what I'm feeling.

It's important for you to do what you love and not let anyone bring you down.

It's my first love what I dreaming of when I go to bed, when I lay my head upon my pillow.

I come up short when I create music I don't like. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the goal is to perfect your craft and create your own sound.

Spread the word about good music. Don't just listen to what's on the radio. If you put in a little effort, you can find some truly wonderful stuff.

We all encounter things that we can't perhaps change and that's OK because surely there are many other things that we can.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

We don't have to be brilliant.

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine.

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213