I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.

You are just too young to believe that everything is not going to be okay.

My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything.

There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.