I'm really lucky in the sense that my hair holds curl awesomely well. It looks the same at 10 P.M. as it does at 10 A.M. One of my favorite products is Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray. I can get a lot of volume with it. I'm from the South - I like big hair.

I was terrified of graduating college and not knowing what I was going to do. I saw the auditions for Idol and thought, Why not? I always liked to sing. You know when they asked, "Are you the next American Idol?" I said yes, but I didn't mean it.

There's not ever much of anything going on in my head.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.

Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.