I do write nice songs about the guys who are nice to me! Eventually, I'm sure one of them will write a response - that's a pretty scary concept, actually! But I make sure I only write bad songs about the ones who deserve it.

It's pretty unhealthy to obsess over what people think about you.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

You can't be in love with a Google search.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.