"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it."

"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."

"People haven't always been there for me, but music always has."

"Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration."

"It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg."

"If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have and the thing we've seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that's going to be our least favourite thing."

"The battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight."

"I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band."

"Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun."

"There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, "Please feel good; please feel better; everything's okay; you're fine; things aren't falling apart; take a second; get back to a place where you realize that you don't actually have real problems." That happens. You never know when those tables are gonna turn... For me, confidence is something that can come crashing down in one second."

"For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated-a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way-that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist."

"My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time."

"So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine."

"There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson."

"It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now."

"I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm."

"For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values."

"I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs."

"'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up."

"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane."

"You're going to have people who are going to say 'Oh, you know like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends' and I think frankly that's a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They're all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love-life, and no one raises a red flag there."

"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."

"Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that."

"We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken."

"Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me."

"I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day."

"I know my flaws before other people point them out to me."

"The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change."

"I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid."

"My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader."

"The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful."

"Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music."

"I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating."

"I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you."

"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."

"It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy."

"The world doesn't owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you."

"I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails."

"I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now."

"The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself."

"Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again."

"As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons and sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, no bumps in the road at all, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn't be full and the mantle would be a little more empty."

"I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)"

"I'm a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, 'cause I remember it all too well."

"You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind."

"Now stand in the corner, and think about what you've done!"

"Taylor Swift on why girls look up to her: "It's the message. I try to have a normal life and look at things in a normal way, under very abnormal circumstances. That's always going to be my main goal, that's always what I'm going to strive for, to be a normal human being. It's interesting because you're put in really abnormal situations. You have an abnormal-size microscope covering your life and everything you do. You look at the idea of being 22, that's when you're supposed to be out there living and being selfish and making mistakes and messing up. If I mess up once, it's a headline everywhere."

"I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern."

"Just being a human being, I've realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could've just said no."

"I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it."