It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

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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.

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To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

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You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

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Just be yourself, there is no one better.

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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.

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

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I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

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

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

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