'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!

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.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent.

There is a missionary spirit—a spirit which urges us to live outside ourselves and to be concerned for the welfare of others.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

Go, and never darken my towels again

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Definitely giving it my heart and soul from my life as I see it. That whole album [My Brother] is like that, that's how I feel.