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Honestly, I'm such a shoe girl. I like to save money, and I like to spend money on shoes.
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My songs are my stories... good, bad, ugly, beautiful.
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Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.
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I was living in Knoxville, Tennessee, and I didn't really know how you would become a singer. I didn't even think that I could do it. I didn't even dream about it. But when I was 12, it was that year where I got tall, boys got cute, everything was weird. Then my parents split up on top of that, so it was a big year of change for me.
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Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.
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Songwriting was a gift that came to me when I needed it the most.
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Women in country music have always been a staple and always been important.
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As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.
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I've always been drawn to strong women in every genre, people who push the boundaries because they're just epic.
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My biggest dream is to headline an arena tour.
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'The First Time' is a song that I wrote by myself on my front porch, in real-time, as that situation was happening to me.
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I am such a girly girl, and I love not playing it safe. I'm so new to this world, so it's fun to establish myself as a fashionista.
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I just want to make the best music I can make.
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Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing. Onstage, I do a little smokier, a little more contouring, but I still always want to be an approachable and real artist, so I never try to go overboard.
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I went to my first CMA Music Fest when I was 14 and waited in line for two hours to meet two people: Taylor Swift and Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum. It's very ironic but not accidental that those two people refer to me as their 'little sister' now.
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In my opinion, it's all about the song and the performance, not the gender.
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No matter how exhausted I am after a show, I always take my makeup off. Even if it's just with a remover wipe.
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I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.
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Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
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I wanted to be a vet. I really thought that's what I wanted to do.
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Sometimes, if I really just need to unwind and kind of watch something that isn't gonna stress me out or have drama in it, I watch 'Spongebob.'
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I am a fan before I am an artist. I was that twelve year old girl that looked up to Taylor Swift. I get what that role is as a fan. I think that because I know that, I'm really careful and intentional about what I say and what I put out. I want to be that role for anyone who wants me to be that.
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I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they fit.
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There are certain days I will get home, and something will pop up on my Twitter, and I will just cry about it. I get so overwhelmed that I get to do what I do.