Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

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.

At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.

I've wanted one thing in my life. I don't want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains.

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.