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" I had five singles that did not work on country radio, and I still had fans that showed up to the shows. "

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" I just want to inspire people to love other people and be accepting because I feel like there's so much going on in the world, and there's so many pressures, and there's so much negativity. "

" For whatever reason, people just like to come out and say whatever they want to say about you when you're on TV. "

" I would see these people calling me 'fat' and calling me horrible names. And this one page called me 'Miss Piggy,' and they only referred to me as 'Miss Piggy.' I was a 16-year-old girl. I did not know how to deal with that, and I was already insecure about my weight. "

" Before I go to bed, I thank God for blessing me with all the things he blessed me with, and for my family to be safe. "

" I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend. "

" I was really fearful that I was going to lose my record deal. It's really scary as a female to not have that success early on in your career, 'cause you don't know how many chances you are going to get. "

" I think my favorite artists are honest artists, and as a songwriter, that's what you have to do. You have to be willing to put yourself out there in a really vulnerable way. "

" I grew up eating fried food. I thought that macaroni and cheese was a vegetable. "

" There's just as much positivity as there is negativity, but for some reason, people focus on the negative things. And I used to be that person, but I'm not that person anymore. "

" There were blogs that called me Miss Piggy. It's a really hard thing to see as a teenager, especially when you already have problems. Reading what people had to say about me online definitely made it worse. People can be vicious. "

" Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret. "

" People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know. "

" When I started working all the time, I started eating the right food that will help me have my energy up and stay healthy. "

" I had really bad polyps on my vocal cords, and I've had them since I was a kid, but the bulimia made it 10 times worse. They were bleeding constantly, and it was straining on my voice. And just the lack of nutrition - my vocal cords couldn't keep up because I was so unhealthy. "

" We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and feel like they're not alone. I want to be empowering. "

" I don't think that anyone was trying to keep me from writing the first album. It's just when you're on 'American Idol' or a TV show like that, you wanna capitalize on that momentum, and you want to use that to your advantage, obviously, so the best way to do that is to get the music out as fast as possible. And there's no time to create, really. "

" I don't mind if people say I was on 'American Idol,' because I was, and that is a part of my past, and I'm super proud of it, but I don't want that to be all there is to me. "

" I really, really look up to Carrie Underwood a lot because she came from a small town that has the same population as mine - 3,500 people. "

" I like having curves. Curves are in! "

" I love to go to school. My favourite subject is math, and I'm - actually, I just love high school more than anything, probably. "

" My mom quit her whole life and came to live with me in California. "

" I've been really fortunate with touring and sales and all those things because I have such a loyal fan base. "

" My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop. "

" As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I'm obsessed with it. "

" I keep the people who I know love me really close. "

" Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened to me!' "

" The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life - just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I'm doing what I'm doing. I just thank Him. I don't know how I deserve it, but it's completely because of Him. "

" I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it. "

" I just feel like in society and in public, we have this unspoken expectation that we're all trying to meet. And there's so much pressure to try to fit in. "

" I like any song that can tell a story that people can relate to. "