There’s something to be said for being young and needing someone so badly that you jump in headfirst without looking.

You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.

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.

It's more provocative to say 'might still have sex' because - it doesn't matter to me. There's not, like, one that hurts my feelings and one that doesn't.

That’s always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think they’re just never going to hurt you, then they do. That’s when you get the worst heartbreak.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

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.'