I love being a part of the country-music community.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.