I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is