All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

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.

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

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

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

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

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.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

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

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

I'm typically single. 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.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

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.

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.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

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

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

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

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.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.

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

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

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.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.