I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.

Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

My voice is stronger today than ever.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

I want romance.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

I've been performing my whole life.

I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.

I enjoy sports in person.

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

Suffering does not discriminate.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.