When I was 9 or 10, I used to get all the lead roles because I was the tallest person. But my interest in music soon drew me to country music. I was infatuated with the sound, with the storytelling. I could relate to it. I can't really tell you why. With me, it was just instinctual.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.

You need to be happy with yourself or you'll never be able to be happy in a relationship.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.