I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

I think my favorite thing about seasons changing is the opportunity to look different.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.