I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don'...

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatev...

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the onl...

There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her liv...

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with so...

I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're g...

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your...

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the cou...

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country sin...

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them...

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...

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile an...