When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.

I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person.

From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.

If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.