My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real.

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.

But puberty was... well, before puberty, at school, I didn't tell kids I was a transvestite 'cause I thought they might kill me with sticks, you know?

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.

My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.

By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

There's no immortality of the soul that you can infer from the Bible.