My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. "I never wanted to be an image of something I didn't believe in, an image that somebody else had put together. The idea of that just really scared me, more than the idea of failing.

I don't think it should be a big deal who you love.

Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

I just drove past Brad Paisley jogging down the side of the road. I rolled down the window and screamed RUN FORREST RUN. I live for….. little moments…..like that.

Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.