"When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening."
"I know my flaws before other people point them out to me."
"I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life."
"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it."
"People haven't always been there for me, but music always has."
"In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is."
"I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons."
"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."
"I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me."
"Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me."
"I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out."
"If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered."
"I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs."
"I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend."
"I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future."
"I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!"
"I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!"
"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
"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."
"For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values."
"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
"My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always."
"I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."
"All you need to do to be my friend is like me."
"I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'"
