With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.

Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.

I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a part of me. When I'm playing, it's staring right back at me, saying, 'Remember where you came from.'

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

I have a lot of ambition.

I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning.