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The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
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I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.
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You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.
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In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
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I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.
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One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.
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If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
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I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
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I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.
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People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
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It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
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I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
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For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
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I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
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I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.
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I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.
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Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.
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Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.
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I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.