I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

I wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they're all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships I've experienced in the last two years. All those emotions fanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of that in my mind, all those emotions are red. There's nothing in between, there's nothing beige about those feelings and so I called my record that.

While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye [west] on the phone call, you cannot 'approve' a song you haven't heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.

I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.