I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I've never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do.

It feels like a perfect night, to dress up like hipsters, and make fun of our exes.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.