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

I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.

I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have to be cold, and you don't.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.