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.

Life makes love look hard.

when you are young they assume you know nothing

We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when you’re either falling in love or losing it

Nothing safe is worth the drive.

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

It's one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there's an arena full of people singing it.

And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.