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.’

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.

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!

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.

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’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

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.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

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.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

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

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.’

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

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!

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.

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.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.