I'm from Michigan, but I'm just as country as anyone else. Maybe I don't have the speaking voice of most country singers, but it is what I love. It's how I've always sung, and it's what I grew up on.

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!'

When I create a masterpiece I feel alive! When my creation is revered I feel immortal.

We all suffer our share of grief but we are stronger than our grief.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.

Home is where people love you, don't forget that.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."