I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

I'm kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers Or doesn't answer

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take.

I'm not a tanning bed person at all, but I'll get a spray tan

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.