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" I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid. "

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" A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums. "

" I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist. "

" When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream. "

" And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate. "

" I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that. "

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

" I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember. "

" One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter. "

" It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg. "

" I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me. "

" I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood. "

" Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. "

" I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen. "

" My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place. "

" I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives. "

" 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 think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.' "

" 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've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back. "

" 'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up. "

" One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics. "

" I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out. "

" I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation. "

" When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.' "

" A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it. "

" I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know. "

" When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour. "

" Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met. "

" I'm typically single. 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. "