I can't promise you that you'll ever live in a world where people don't hurt your feelings. But I can promise you that if you keep on moving and taking one day at a time, the opinions and words of people who hurt you will matter less and less to you.

And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

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.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

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