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 think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

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

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.