“You don’t need to be a princess to feel amazing. You know, you can feel amazing in your own skin and you don’t need anybody to save you, ‘cause you are strong. “

“My big dream is to look out into a crowd of thousands of people and have them singing the words to my songs. That to me would just be everything I’ve ever hoped for. I have tunnel vision, and for me that’s all I see.”

Sometimes, it’s our secrets that define us.

“Early on, my manager told me, ‘If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.”
-Taylor Swift

“Let me take you back to a conversation I had with Taylor in 2005. She said to me “I want a Gold Record.” My response to her was, “then lets go meet 500,000 people.” Unless you had a song getting major airplay at radio, that was very hard. At the time, the main form of Social Media was MySpace. No one had quite figured out how to use it to build a following until Taylor came along. The rest is pretty much history.”
-Rick Barker

I go through life like a karate kid. 

“I know I get a lot of flack for what I wear and what I say and what I don’t say…my advice for you is to never, ever lose your passion to dream. Please don’t.”

I always wanted to be a singer, it’s what I wanted to do since I was little. I’m doing it now and I couldn’t be happier.