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" Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less. "

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" I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! 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. And wonderful. "

" 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 can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing. "

" You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that. "

" I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics. "

" When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that. "

" I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me. "

" There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it. "

" I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you. "

" I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun! "

" It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told. "

" In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better. "

" 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. "

" I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them. "

" It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles. "

" I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into. "

" 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 have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels. "

" Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. "

" Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of. "

" 'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them! "

" I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging. "

" I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded. "

" Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places. "

" I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on. "

" 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 feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life. "

" As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is. "

" I love being a part of the country-music community. "

" I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test. "