Quotes

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.

I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

[7 February 2011] Quit smoking 1 year ago today!! Day 24 back in the studio... I'm gonna sing with my clean lungs allll day!! Happy Monday!

Smoking a cigarette on the cover of a magazine is not cool. Smoking is not cool. Not cool at all.

I wrote the song after I went home to Philadelphia for the holiday last December. I sat in my childhood bedroom and hid from the boy (with the jar of hearts) who wanted to see me. My heart wanted to see him, my head knew better. I couldn't take one more break so I wrote the song instead.