“An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.”

I’ve written poetry most of my life.

Once I heard how deep music could touch people and what it can make you feel and all of these emotions it could bring out, I was really fascinated with it all.

I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.

My boyfriend and I like to fight a lot. I have a lot of problems. He has a lot of problems. Somehow, we always work them out and find a way back to each other.

I definitely always thought of myself as a songwriter before a singer.

My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.

I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I’d remember things, like my library card number, was to make a melody.

If I get writer’s block – this is going to sound funny – I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I’m cleaning my brain as well as my body.

I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.

I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what’s happening, it’s so much easier for us to write a song that’s specific to them.

I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.

We could be history in the making.

Still finding silly string in weird places.

I write songs for myself, but I never keep them. I’m like, ‘O.K., that was my therapy – it’s out of my body now. I’m going to give it to somebody else so it can be their therapy, too.’

Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.

There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.

The artist’s role isn’t to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I am an artist, not a politician.

As an artist, it’s never really enough. You always want to strive to get bigger and better and push the limits of what you can actually do.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

The word ‘artist’ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all.