There’s no regimen. There’s no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it’s an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don’t necessarily like being at the gym.
It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.
Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.
Be careful with what you say. A girl remembers everything.
My imagination is a twisted place.
The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.
Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.
When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
People put you down because you’re above them.
When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.
Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.
All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealously, all those feelings are red.
Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don’t really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they’re good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.
I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.