Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore.

Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

I don't know what everybody else was fantasizing about but what I was fantasizing about was a nine-to-five existence, a house on a tree-lined block with a white picket fence, pink roses in the backyard. [...] After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

People don't value their obscurity. They don't know what it's like to have it taken away.