My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.
I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.
There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.
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.
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.
Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.