Your album Fearless (IN STORES TODAY) consists of mostly songs about guys. Do आप prefer लेखन प्यार songs या break up songs? I really like to write songs about relationships. I like to write about boys and I प्यार to write about every aspect of love. I think that it’s really fascinating to me how many angles there are to a breakup. There are so many different things आप can write about one breakup. So right now, that’s my प्रिय thing to write about. But also when you’re falling in प्यार with someone, when you’ve just gone on the best तारीख, दिनांक ever and आप write a song about it. I think capturing that moment in time is really important and really fun. I am just fascinated द्वारा the whole relationship thing and that’s my प्रिय thing to write songs about.
JJ: आप update your Myspace blog from time to time, so आप must check out other blogs. Which ones do आप read regularly?
TS: I read blogs a lot actually. And I प्यार JustJared because you’re really really nice and you’re really positive and I really appreciate that. And usually the people that comment, the people that read your blog are all really cool too. That’s been fun. I read Perez and OceanUp. I don’t know. My dad gets गूगल Alerts on me and he’ll send me those every once in a while, so it’s just बिना सोचे समझे stuff. I really do appreciate the fact that you’ve been so supportive and so nice to me so thank you.
JJ: When आप went on tour with Brad पैस्ले there were a lot of pranks played. Which one was your favorite?
TS: Going out on the Brad पैस्ले Tour, that was a notorious tour for pranking. Before I went out on tour, I knew that he pranked a lot of his opening acts a lot towards the end of the tour. I was out on the road with Kellie Pickler and Brad and we became best friends, Kellie and I, and we decided that we were gonna start pranking him the first week. He had a brand new song out then called Ticks, so Kellie and I ordered these huge, gigantic, full body tick costumes and dressed up in them and ran out on stage during his performance of that song. And then we had the other opening act – Jack Ingram – come out dressed up like an insect killer guy with the mask and the spray gun and everything and he proceeded to come out on stage and spray us and kill us. It was great, it was really fun. We have it on video and that’s definitely my प्रिय moment of the tour.
JJ: आप recently attended the Another सिंडरेला Story premiere starring Selena Gomez. आप two seem like such good friends. Do आप have a best friend in the business?
TS: I’d say Selena Gomez is definitely my best friend in the business. We talk all the time, almost everyday. She’s just such a cool person because she’s so real and a lot of times people get to a level where they’re famous and people know them, people recognize them and they become…less real and Selena’s so cool because she’s got a great sense of humor, she’s a real person. It’s really awesome to have gotten to know her and have her in my life.
JJ: Do आप play any other instruments besides the guitar?
TS: The instrument that I write on most of the time is a guitar. आप know, I’ll be sitting in my room and I’ll get an idea for a song and I’ll just grab my गिटार and start adlibbing. I think that when आप write a song on पियानो it gives आप a different feel. I’m not the best पियानो player but I do know chords and I do know how to play and how to write a song on piano. It’s really fun for me to get to switch that up every once in a while and there are a few songs on the new record that I wrote on piano.
JJ: What’s been the biggest splurge since आप made it big?
TS: I think my biggest splurge so far has been my tour bus. If I’m spending money, it’s gonna be putting it back into my career. I don’t like to be extravagant any other place. My tour bus is really important because I live there. I’m there और than when I’m home. So, I put a fireplace on my tour bus and a flip-down treadmill and a really comfortable बिस्तर and it’s just…I feel like I’m घर whenever I’m on my tour bus. I do not regret that splurge.
JJ: Besides work, what’s something you’d enjoy getting up early for?
TS: I’m really into breakfast now. I don’t know why. I was never really a breakfast person before but just recently I’ve come to realize that breakfast is awesome. So, I don’t know. A breakfast तारीख, दिनांक या something. या if Grey’s Anatomy was on at 6 a.m., I would get up everyday and watch it. या every week.
JJ: What were the last three ring tones on your cell phone?
TS: The last three ring tones on my cell phone have been “It’s Over” द्वारा Jesse McCartney, “You’re So Vain” द्वारा Carly Simon and “Low” द्वारा Kelly Clarkson. That’s pretty depressing right?
JJ: Where is your high school diploma in your house?
TS: My high school diploma was mailed to me. I’m really excited because I didn’t test out या get my GED. I actually went through the whole process of home-schooling. It was pretty tough doing it on the road, but I made it a priority and got my diploma in the mail this summer. Very excited about it. I don’t know if we have it hung up yet because we haven’t really had much time to hang anything up. It’s weird, I walk into my room and it’s like a time लपेटें from when I was in eighth grade. I have no new pictures up. It’s like all of me in junior high, it’s pretty crazy. Hopefully we’ll get some time this winter to hang up some new pictures and my diploma and things like that.
JJ: Tell us three things people don’t know about you?
TS: I think three things people don’t know about me are that one – I have really bad eyesight. So I have these huge glasses that I wear that are the ugliest pair of glasses you’ll ever see in your life. But they were the ones in the glasses store that no one was going to buy. They were in the corner, they’re all dusty. I’m like, ‘no one is going to buy those, and they’re so ugly’. So I had to buy them. That’s one. Two is that if I don’t have coffee in the morning, I get a headache at night. Three is that I like to paint. Whenever I have downtime, whenever I’m home, I’ll turn off all the lights in my room and light candles and listen to संगीत and paint. Usually I’ll send them to people – like to the radio programmers या things like that. But I like to paint.
