I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.

When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.

She thinks I'm psycho cause I like to rhyme her name with things.

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I think that there's a difference between getting your heart broken and getting let down.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world.

Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Life isn't how to survive the storm, it's about how to dance in the rain.

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.

Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

We mistake our mistakes as being damaged.

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!

I always have to be writing.