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.

I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is my thing.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the pressure off of you. But, you know, I started writing songs by myself. I didn't really have a co-writer, besides my dad. When I see a record and it has a song on it that someone wrote [alone], I just really believe in them as a writer. I feel like it's a window into them, more than it is if you write a song with someone else.

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.