I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

• In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
• I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
• I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
• All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
• I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
• You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
• Faith Hill is a big role model.
• I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
• I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.