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.'

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.

I love trying to beat what I've done so far.

People don't take you seriously if you scream, if you raise your voice, especially when you're a 19-year-old girl.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.