When I'm lying wrapped up in your arms, the whole world just fades away. The only thing I hear is the beating of your heart.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.