I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

I got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was so much fun for me, but the thing that I looked forward to the most was at the cast parties. After the shows they had karaoke machines set up and that's when I could sing country music.