I have my views and obviously my music has connotations that lean toward what I believe, but I've learned through other artists' mistakes that I'm never going to use my career as a platform for politics, especially at shows. People come to hear music. It's my job to entertain them, and it's my escape too.

Is it guilty in here or is it just me?

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

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.

Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!

Really skinny actresses make me hungry. I see them and think, 'Honey, you need to eat!'