I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun.

I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me.

I do remember the people who believed in me in the beginning. I'll never forget that.

I think I have a good head on my shoulders.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

I think music changes and it evolves.

Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'

L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.

When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.

I'm bored of it all being miserable. I just want something to change. There's nothing wrong with that is there?

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Right now I am working to polish the shards of my dreams.

You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

The mobile industry changed Africa.