I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here, 'Cause I remember it all, all, all... too well...

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning.

I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.