It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular.

My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.