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" The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count. "

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" Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page. "

" I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out. "

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

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

" When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts. "

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

" When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.' "

" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night. "

" My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. "

" I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60! "

" I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right. "

" No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. "

" There's room for role models who make mistakes. "

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

" I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt. "

" I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it. "

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

" My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time. "

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

" When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise. "

" 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. "

" Faith Hill is a big role model. "

" I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it. "