It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

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 love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

The worst possible way a relationship can end is when somebody cheats on somebody else.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

Falling in love isn't as easy as it seems when you've seen love crash and burn right in front of your eyes.