My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and I came running up to people on the beach, strangers that I chose at random and began to sing, and my family never knew where I was, they were always looking for me, trying to imagine who I was harassing this time .

The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change.

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 think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.