You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.

I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.

You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.