Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful… You dont have to be like everybody else. In fact I don’t think you should.

I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.

Every day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life - we were just trying to make it to next week.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.