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I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.
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I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.
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Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.
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When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.
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I've always wanted to dye my hair a bright color.
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I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.
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I wouldn't be an artist if I didn't have Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Taylor Swift to look up to.
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It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake - and that's OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it's like, 'This is who I'm listening to.'
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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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I try to be a good person. I love Jesus.
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I try to exercise when I'm on road - I really do try - but I also try not to push myself too hard. I just try to move.
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I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.
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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.
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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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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 love having that conversation with someone I've never met before who's enjoying something that I wrote and being able to connect and share that.
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Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.
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I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle.
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The whole heartbeat of the first record is young, which I think is what made it relatable to young girls.
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There's value in being a normal person.
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It took a while to learn to eat healthy on road. It's really hard. Really, really hard. But on the bus, I can use the stovetop in the morning to make a veggie scramble. And have lots and lots and lots of coffee. I try to have protein for dinner so I have energy for the show.
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I would love to do a duet with Gavin Degraw. Or Ed Sheeran.
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My first artist bus was Jason Aldean's old bus, with deer antlers over the lights and cowhide on the back of the couches. It was such an absolute dude bus.
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