Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.
I think it's okay to talk about grief and sorrow. Especially for women, when you lose a child or have a miscarriage, it's good to talk about it, as a lot of people don't want you to speak about those things. It makes people sad, but sometimes you've got to.
I never thought it was fair that women couldn't travel freely because it was dangerous. I'd stay by myself on the North Carolina coast for a couple of weeks, with my dog and my gun, and my mom would be terrified. I told her, if I stay home, a lamp could fall on my head. You can't spend your whole life inside because you're scared.
I had this mentality that I had to go out to everyone's show so everyone at the end of the week would come to mine - that I had to go out and rub elbows, find exposure. A small part of that is true. But if something is good, people will notice when you put it out.
I'm from a really small town, and everybody there drives trucks. They're all farmers.
I'm not from the South, but I love country music. And country music is really big in the Midwest. Connie Smith came from Ohio. Jessi Colter was from Arizona.
I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.
A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.
It's easy to be a people-pleaser, but that's not what makes me happy.
When I was about to enroll for my third year of college, I ended up dropping out and moving to Nashville.
Women get labeled 'bossy' when it's like, 'Maybe I'm a leader. Maybe I just know what I want.'
From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.
A lot of times, people say, 'You're so much like Loretta or Tammy Wynette.' But I feel kind of like one of the men. I'm like David Allan Coe. I've been to prison, man!
A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.
Everybody goes through something terrible if you live long enough.
For a long time, I was very naive and very trusting. I Just didn't think anyone would want to do anything to harm me, but I learned through trial and error that that's not the case.
What I always liked about country music was the stories, the ability to talk about very real things like divorce and drinking and death and jail.
I know so many girls that have felt like they've been taken advantage of. Not only in the music business, but in every single career out there.
I worried so long that I would sing to empty bars my whole life. I was singing my guts out; there would be five people into it.
You can't let every bad thing that happens to you in your life overtake you.
