I think your life is full of first loves because every time you love someone new, you love them in a different way.

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.

Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I'm the girl who still believes prince charming exists somewhere out there.

I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.