If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words out of my mouth. My words might not be magic, but they cut straight to the truth. So if you need a lover and a friend, baby, I'm in.

There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.

Everybody needs somebody sometimes.

I'm grateful when anybody can start to have his or her limited perception of the genre open up a little bit. There's a lot of great music in the country genre that doesn't get heard because people say, 'Well, I don't like country.'

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.