When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

If you're not in it for love, I'm out a here.

Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.

You have to set your own boundaries. We all do. You have to self-check. At the same time, the transparency is liberating. It is so much easier than screening every little thing you do and say. There's got to be some fluidity to self-expression without constantly editing things. The older I get, the more confident I feel in that. The filters are just flung away... lets face it, filters interrupt the flow of sincerity. If you're embarrassed about something you've done, then just say it.

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.