I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

You are just too young to believe that everything is not going to be okay.

We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when you’re either falling in love or losing it

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.