I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.

I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

I am a creature of the sun. I don't ever mind being in the heat.

I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter.

Faith is something a lot of people relate to as a God-thing, but it's also faith in yourself.

The lasting legacy of the Cooter Smash is that I'm the first to know when it's going to rain. That's right. I both sing and predict the weather with my hoo hoo.

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.