I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we'll have a unique song by the end of it.

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.'

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?

I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.

I know not every song has to be a powerful message.