I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.

I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion is really important. I wouldn't want to show up for a performance in something that is absolutely the opposite of who I am as an artist.

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.