Jepsen: "I guess there's a part of you that always wants to try something a little bit different than what you’ve done before."

Jepsen: "I think I've been challenging myself musically in a lot of ways. But in a personal way, I also feel less confined to just call pop one thing anymore, and myself one thing anymore. I've enjoyed coloring outside the lines a little bit — it's just made me so much happier, and I feel like my music is so much more purposeful and authentic."

Jepsen: "My tactic is to make eyes at someone."

Jepsen: "I've always felt like Alice in Wonderland when it comes to fashion. I keep falling further down the rabbit hole until I'm dizzy with options. It's overwhelming, so I have one rule: I wear whatever excites me."

Jepsen: "There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song."

Jepsen: "You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first."

Jepsen: "Life's too much fun to have it go in just one direction."

Jepsen: "I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually."

Jepsen: “Musically I was really trying to fight this idea that these artists are supposed to deliver one type of music. As humans we're a spectrum of different things and I want to be able to play that. Like, women can have silliness and depth, and we can be sexy one moment and then be really serious the next. So why should I have to choose?”

Jepsen: "What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine."

Jepsen: "I think that anyone really can write songs, it just takes having an idea and a feeling and chasing it, and you can learn more about it. I think that's why I go to so many sessions. It is a craft that you can learn from other people. I find it to be the most fascinating thing. So I write a lot, yeah!"

Jepsen: "The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject."

Jepsen: "Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'"

Jepsen: "Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things."

Jepsen: "I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something."

Jepsen: "I always write what feels really and honest and me."

[On how she chose her 2013 Grammys dress]

Jepsen: "You know in that moment of Disney when Ariel gets legs for the first time? I felt like that. I was like, 'I've got legs.'"

Jepsen: "I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am."

Jepsen: "Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'"

Jepsen: "I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well."

Jepsen: "I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing."

Jepsen: "I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird."

Jepsen: "I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear."

Jepsen: "My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of."