“I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs...”

“I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and...”

“I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a...”

“If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How...”

“I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us ar...”

“Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the p...”

“In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.”

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over th...”

“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorb...”

“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back an...”