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I would love to see Regina Spektor, Bjork, and some really cool-sounding festival bands like 'Metric' and 'The Cardigans,' who are one of my favorite bands.
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There are so many times I turn on the radio, and I hear a guy, and I have no idea who it is because it sounds like four other people.
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I'm young, but I've been doing this a long time... There's obviously a lot of hard work that goes into it. It's a hard town. There's a lot of talent here. It's all about timing, too. I just feel like I finally found the right town and the right song.
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Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.
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There's not a lot of good content to write about when you're 13 years old, so you just have to kind of fake it.
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There's Kelsea Ballerini, myself... Lauren Alaina, Raelynn, and there's been this influx of really amazing artists who happen to be women. I think I'm not really attached to the females in country conversation as much anymore, but I think, you know, we're here to stay, and we've always been here, and we've always been good.
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Food is always a favorite on my docket when I go somewhere.
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I just love Dolly so much, and Loretta. They both are songwriters that knew what they wanted to say; they were bucking a system.
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Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.
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I love listening to the radio because there's something about that discovery, that platform, still being the main medium. And it is changing with streaming services, but I like to listen to what people are listening to and figure out why is this song so catchy.
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I want to be as gracious and thankful as I can because it has been a long road.
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If I had been thrown out into a radio tour when I was 18, or 17, and given a record deal, I don't think... it would have been a total nightmare.
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I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.
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Even though I was playing myself on 'NCIS,' it was so cool to see how everything works behind a camera.
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Texas is really special in that we have our own music scene, our own music chart. It's almost a genre on its own. It feels like you can make a great living just touring the state because it's so big, but eventually, I wanted a new challenge.
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I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that's sort of the aim I had with 'Hero' - just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.
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Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.
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I've never been this loud personality. I don't dominate the room when I walk into it. I save that for stage.
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If I got dropped tomorrow or every single I released from now on tanked, I'd be devastated, but I'd also still be doing this. I'd still be writing songs. I'd still be recording them. I was doing that for four years in Nashville. This is just on a larger stage.
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There's no real high like finishing a new song, playing it a thousand times in your car, and freaking out with your co-writers.
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In Texas, it's legal for a kid to be in a bar with your parents.
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I remember thinking the Nineties were uncool: 'I landed in the generation where nothing happens.'
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There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.
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The support I've had from home has made it so much more fun to put music out.