I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!

You can stay the same person you've always been even if everything around you changes.

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.