If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

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.

I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.