My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

The things that make me cry are when the people I love have gone through pain and I’ve seen it.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go

I'm not opposed to falling in love.

When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom.