I feel like I'm being put inside a box, and I'm not necessarily getting a chance. Like I'm not getting the shot that I deserve. So that's what Rare is about 'cause I feel because I am the way that I am, and I don't necessarily fit the mold of a lot of different artists that's out, it's like I'm not getting the chance to show what I can do. So, that's basically all the frustration of that, and everything is pretty much Rare for me anyway.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.