Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

Follow your arrow / Wherever it points.

I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

Say what you think / Love who you love.

Obviously, I dont live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like theres definitely something to it.

I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along to.

They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful.

Birthday Soup is good to eat, but not as good as Birthday Cake.

I’m wondering how long I have to deal with this bullshit before I can brief my troops. Oh, and I gotta feed my goldfish. Let’s get this straight, Blondie—”“Blondie?”“That’s an insult, not a pet name.

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.