'Doin' Fine' is a really special song because it's uplifting but really honest at the same time.

I just desperately wanted to be thin. That's all I thought. I was obsessed with it, which it was ridiculous because I had everything going for me. I was following my dream. Everything I wanted at the time, I was getting. But I was obsessed with this other thing that was making me unhappy.

I want to be happy. We all want to be happy. I want to be treated like a normal human being, but I also want to be on stage in a fancy dress, so I'm trying to find a happy medium.

My mom made me look in the mirror every day and say three things that I loved about myself. At first, I couldn't name anything. It was so sad. When my mom made me do that, I looked in the mirror, and I literally couldn't name one thing that I loved about myself.

A lot of my fans are young women that are my age. We're all going through the same problems at the same time, so I just tried to be really honest with that.

I love to go to school. My favourite subject is math, and I'm - actually, I just love high school more than anything, probably.

I've been really fortunate with touring and sales and all those things because I have such a loyal fan base.

To see your dad cry is like - It's different than to see your mom cry, you know?

There are so many people who have eating disorders or who body shame themselves every day or have some sort of insecurity, and I feel like I have a direct reach to some of those people.

My parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people.

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy.

I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.

He might be my boyfriend. He might not be my boyfriend.

No matter what decision I make, I want people to know that there's a reason I made it, and it's because it was something I felt like needed to happen. I don't want people to think that I've just gone crazy.

I really, really look up to Carrie Underwood a lot because she came from a small town that has the same population as mine - 3,500 people.

As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I'm obsessed with it.

I think everyone needs to mind their own business.

It is a horrible feeling to have people bashing you online.

When I started working all the time, I started eating the right food that will help me have my energy up and stay healthy.

I don't think I'm being forced to grow up too fast; I would rather people treat me like an adult.

My dad didn't know that I had an eating disorder. He had no idea, so that was weird. I was in an interview and just said it accidentally. I called my dad because I remember thinking, 'My dad does not know that,' and he was surprised. I think he understood, though.

I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!

There's just as much positivity as there is negativity, but for some reason, people focus on the negative things. And I used to be that person, but I'm not that person anymore.

I don't take myself too seriously, or I at least try not to, and I want to encourage other people to live that way because it's a much better way to go about your life.

I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it.

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.

I had bulimia for a few years. I was really sick. I don't know that person; I can't believe that was me.

I try to remind myself of the things that I like about myself that make me who I am.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

I really feel like I found myself, and when I found myself, I found the music along with it.

I'm a huge country music fan, and there are so many girls that I look up to, especially Carrie Underwood, which everyone knows because I've shouted it out for a while now.

I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.

I won't change who I am for anything.

I love acting. I want to act as much as I can without interfering with the music.

Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret.

There were blogs that called me Miss Piggy. It's a really hard thing to see as a teenager, especially when you already have problems. Reading what people had to say about me online definitely made it worse. People can be vicious.

I had really bad polyps on my vocal cords, and I've had them since I was a kid, but the bulimia made it 10 times worse. They were bleeding constantly, and it was straining on my voice. And just the lack of nutrition - my vocal cords couldn't keep up because I was so unhealthy.

I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.

'Pretty' is not the amount of makeup on your face or the shirt you're wearing or the size of your pants - that is false.

For whatever reason, people just like to come out and say whatever they want to say about you when you're on TV.

When I first heard my song 'Georgia Peaches' on the radio, I opened up the car windows and started screaming to the other people on the road, 'My song's on the radio!' Of course, I wasn't driving.

I think we're all insecure about something, but there's a way to deal with those emotions healthily by seeking professional help earlier on.

My mom quit her whole life and came to live with me in California.

I keep the people who I know love me really close.

I don't let people say mean things to me! I don't surround myself with people who'd want to do that.

I've always dreamed of doing a music video.

I don't mind if people say I was on 'American Idol,' because I was, and that is a part of my past, and I'm super proud of it, but I don't want that to be all there is to me.