Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while.

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

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.

Fearless is knowing that someday things will change.

Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.

It was an actual Christmas tree farm. We had, like, 15 acres. It was really fun as a kid. I also spent my summers at the Jersey Shore, on the bay in Stone Harbor. I walked everywhere barefoot. It was just the most amazing, magical way to grow up.

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.