That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim [Kardashian] posts it on the internet.

If I had to give my younger self some advice, I think it would be that you have to laugh at things-things that scare you, things that intimidate you, things that hurt you, When you're humiliated, when you're rejected, you have to be able to take these bad experiences you have and turn them into a great dinner party joke.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.

They're [haters] just building you up to knock you down. But for me, they haven't.