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" I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down. "

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" In Nashville, everybody just wants to write the best songs. So it's a very inviting songwriting community. "

" I try not to take any liberties when it comes to being factual. Sometimes you have to, just to make the song sound good. But I feel like, personally, if you've lived it, then you shouldn't stretch the truth. It should be that experience. "

" I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can. "

" It is such a surreal feeling to have my first single go No. 1! "

" I don't know what it is in me that refuses to quit, but I think it's kind of like, dare to dream. "

" I think I realized my parents' relationship was special when I had my first girlfriend, and she came from a broken marriage. I watched how much closeness there was between her and her mom, and also how much bickering. "

" My very first tattoo was a crown of thorns around my upper left arm that I have since gotten covered up, because I got it right before Pamela Anderson came out with 'Barb Wire.' "

" I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.' "

" We've gotten to play shows where I'm the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see me, and that's when you really learn, 'Okay, who's listening to this music?' That and social media. But I couldn't feel luckier about the fan base that is starting to grow... People have just been super, super supportive and awesome. "

" My parents' example of a loving, caring relationship, I think, has affected my songwriting a ton and allowed me to start writing love songs that people could connect to without sounding like you're being cheesy, because they're coming from a real place, something that I saw coming up. I think they're a huge influence on my songwriting. "

" There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach. "

" I like the idea of a relationship where you can need and rely on each other and not feel needy and not feel like that makes you not independent. "

" Country music isn't about being better than the guy next to you - it's just making sure that you keep working hard enough to deserve the position that you get in. "

" There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and how often women want to hear 'I love you.' For the most part, it's on the guy. He's not withholding it intentionally. It's just that we kind of miss the point sometimes, that even in the most nonchalant way, telling the person how you feel is important. "

" I've never seen my dad come home from work and not walk straight to my mom and ask her about her day. "

" My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to. "

" I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how. "

" It's funny how God will change your plans for you when he's ready. "

" It's really hard to chase a lofty dream. "

" If something's gonna make you happy, and you know it's gonna make you happy, and it's what you want more than anything in the world, don't let someone else discourage you and talk you out of doing it just because they're doubters. "

" My first concert was Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey. "

" If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it. "

" I'm still obsessed with the beach whenever I'm home; when I'm on the beach, it feels like home to me. "

" There's room for everybody to have success, but the moment I start slacking is the moment people will forget about me. "