In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

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.

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

I think doing something that's different, that's out of your comfort zone is important.