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" 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. "

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" I think everyone needs to mind their own business. "

" I don't take myself too seriously, or I at least try not to, and I want to encourage other people to live that way because it's a much better way to go about your life. "

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

" 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. "

" My mom married a family friend, and my dad married someone that's eight years older than me, so it was just like, these - like, I literally live a country song, so I had to write one. "

" A lot of my fans are young women that are my age. We're all going through the same problems at the same time, so I just tried to be really honest with that. "

" I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place. "

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

" 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. "

" People are pretty because they're nice, and they care about other people, and they have a good heart. That's what makes you pretty, and I didn't know that at one point in my life. "

" My mom made me look in the mirror every day and say three things that I loved about myself. At first, I couldn't name anything. It was so sad. When my mom made me do that, I looked in the mirror, and I literally couldn't name one thing that I loved about myself. "

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

" 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 want to write with Taylor Swift! "

" My parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people. "

" 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 didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible. "

" I just desperately wanted to be thin. That's all I thought. I was obsessed with it, which it was ridiculous because I had everything going for me. I was following my dream. Everything I wanted at the time, I was getting. But I was obsessed with this other thing that was making me unhappy. "

" I got really tired of fighting who I am, and I did that for a really long time; I was trying to be this perfect girl, perfect family, perfect body, and those people aren't real. "

" I like having curves. Curves are in! "

" I was raised really religious, and it's a big part of my life. No matter what I go through, my faith will always be there. "

" Self-confidence is something I've always lacked in. But finally, at some point, I just decided to be honest. "

" I want that to be my overall message - that we just need to love each other. We need to love other more. "

" 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. "

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" 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 are so many people who have eating disorders or who body shame themselves every day or have some sort of insecurity, and I feel like I have a direct reach to some of those people. "

" I had to learn correct portion control. I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner. "

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