When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

I'm kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers Or doesn't answer

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take.

I'm not a tanning bed person at all, but I'll get a spray tan

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Is that an invitation?”“I suppose it is.”“Good.” Cade’s voice dropped lower, adding one last thing before hanging up. “And tell your friend in the striped shirt that he’s in my seat.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That's all I was telling my brain at all times: 'Do not sing Hopelessly Devoted. Don't do it.'

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.

When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire

I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?