People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like — that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.