I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream.

It's not our job to make people like us if they don't.

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

(Talk about Kelly Pickler)"She's like a sister.People say we're such opposites, but that's what makes us such good friends. She's incredibly blunt. I love that about her. If some guy has said or done something to me she doesn't like, she'll grab my cell phone and say, 'I'm deleting his number.

When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.