I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts."

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

I've always been about less government.

The fact that I get to do what I love and 14 years in, I'm still doing it - I don't know how anything could get better.

I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

Music isn’t just heard, it is felt.