Lights
So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.Collection: Needs
The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.Collection: Writing
I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.Collection: Mother
If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.Collection: Moving
Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like...it can cause conflict. As much as you're married, you're still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.Collection: Self
Every day is just a time to learn about yourself and learn about the world and that's how I feel all the time.Collection: World
I've never been somebody who blew up overnight, I've never been somebody who everyone talked about all at once, but I've had this really cool slow build.Collection: Really Cool
I need to be happy. I need to set that example for my daughter so that she goes into something she loves, not because other people want her to do something. It's a good feeling, it's freeing.Collection: Daughter
I never had good hair growing up - just had the worst nothing hair - and until I started being rough with it, even 'til this day I'm actually pretty rough with it, and ever since I've been like that it's been pretty darn good to me.Collection: Growing Up
I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still my publishers and are like my musical family, my second family - they took me in and taught me what a good song is.Collection: Song
It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres.Collection: Different
Sitting in a studio with Oli [Sykes], or going back and forth with Adam [Young] on his tracks, it's so much more fun than something really structured and put together.Collection: Fun
My hair's actually really thin, but I just throw some hairspray into it and make sure it's been a couple days dirty, and then it goes the direction that you want it, literally!Collection: Couple
I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there.Collection: Couple
I was getting really influenced by some darker, heavier electro stuff, like Crystal Castles. And I was listening to some dub-step elements, so I thought this was going to be the natural progression, taking my soft melodies and my soft voice and marrying it with something a little heavier.Collection: Voice
I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out who you are as an artist because, once you know how to write a good song, you can dress it in any kind of clothing.Collection: Song
I think a lot of people feel like they need other people to help identify themselves, whether that's friends or relationships or whatever that may be. But it's you who identifies yourself and you need to take time to do that.Collection: Thinking
It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.Collection: Song
I collect Wonder Woman - from comics to paraphernalia, and I even have a tattoo of her on my back. I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan!Collection: Tattoo
As far as depths of geekiness... I have more friends in World of Warcraft than I do in real life!Collection: Real
When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.Collection: Sexy
YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily marriedCollection: Song
I praised those who find within themselves their own song to create hope.Collection: Song
One girl, actually, in the UK — it was a really small show in Wales — a girl came up to me and said that because of one of my songs she was still alive. She’d decided not to commit suicide. It was a really emotional moment.Collection: Girl