“It's so easy to get caught up in this weird life. This isn't normal and I'm not singing for people that live my life. I'm singing to the life I used to have. The life I want to have again.”
“My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.”
“Some weeks, I'm super-duper busy, so I can only fit cardio in here and there, a lot of stuff happens in the afternoon, so I can get up and have a workout, which makes me feel awesome for the rest of my day. There's just something sexy about feeling strong. And every night I'm onstage, I get another workout.”
“The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.”
“The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definitely lived through my fair share of trips to the cellar in the spring. We were no stranger to that. I still ask my mom, 'Is the cellar cleaned out now? Is everything OK?' Even in my new house, I had something built in it that's like a storm shelter.”
“I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids.”
“The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.”
“My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.”
“Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon.”
“As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.”