You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

I think being a Texan - we sort of have that extra fire in us as a breed. I just felt like from day one I had something to say and I wanted to make sure people heard me, and it's worked.

Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

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