When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

I’m always going to be a hopeless romantic. Always.

I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

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.

Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway.

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.

(Talking about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the inspiration I needed. Everything I wrote (at that time) came from that experience, what I observed happening around me.