Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.

I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire

I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.