I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.

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

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!'

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

Ask yourself whether the problem will matter in a year or two. If not, it may be a trivial issue unworthy of your concern.

You either have chemistry or you don't, but a lot of what attracts me is a guy's mind and humor and talent. I need to get to know all those things before I fall for someone.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.

I think bisexuality is frowned upon for a lot of different reasons. But I don't like any of those words. I don't like any of those labels. I think they're limiting.

When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me