Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.

It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.

I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.