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" 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. "

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" 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 interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible. "

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" Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. "

" I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that. "

" It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way. "

" My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem. "

" 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! "

" People don't usually compliment your character. "

" I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it. "

" I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic. "

" My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from. "

" All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years. "

" Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options. "

" One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead. "

" I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly. "

" I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next. "

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

" I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12. "

" I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it. "

" 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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" I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did. "

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

" For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them. "

" I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me. "

" For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. "

" I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning. "

" When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished. "