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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience. "

" When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening. "

" 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 still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard. "

" I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are. "

" 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. "

" Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen. "

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

" I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it. "

" People don't usually compliment your character. "

" Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult! "

" 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 get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me! "

" 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. "

" It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you. "

" When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill. "

" I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything. "

" I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one. "

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

" I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you. "

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

" 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. "

" When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control. "