I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.

Follow your arrow / Wherever it points.

I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

Say what you think / Love who you love.

Obviously, I dont live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like theres definitely something to it.

I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along to.

Life should be lived more from the heart than the head.

All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

Number 45 doesn't explode like Number 23 used to.

I gave you things I wasn't sure I even had.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.