I know that if things hadn't gone the way they did then I wouldn't be where I am now.

I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't.