“It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it”

“Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.”

“One day we'll look back we'll smile and we'll laugh,but right now we just cry. Cuz it's so hard to say good-bye.”

“I cut the ribbon in Paris, and everyone in Paris speaks French — maybe you knew that. But I'm from Tennessee, and Tennessee girls don't speak French. So suddenly I'm stuck onstage with Minnie and Mickey and everyone is yelling at me in French — I guess they're telling me to get off the stage, but I didn't know what they were saying at the time, so I start dancing with Minnie and Mickey like on the show and finally my aunt comes and gets me off.”

“Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite”

“You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside.”

“Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.”