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" It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye. "

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" 'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer. "

" 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 don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation. "

" I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots. "

" Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind. "

" As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger. "

" I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet. "

" I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating. "

" My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry. "

" When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels. "

" There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes. "

" I'm intimidated by the fear of being average. "

" The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself. "

" I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second. "

" I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders. "

" There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory. "

" Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity. "

" I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me. "

" I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them. "

" I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me. "

" One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same. "

" I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music. "

" Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months. "

" I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that. "

" I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories. "

" Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up. "

" I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. "

" If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it. "

" As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what. "

" Love is the one wild card. "