I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.

Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.

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!

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.

It's been occurring to me I'd like to hang out with you, for my whole life.1