There's not a lot of good content to write about when you're 13 years old, so you just have to kind of fake it.

It's hard to say exactly when it all started or what show it was, but I started touring when I was 11. I played all over Dallas and Fort Worth, and eventually I was touring the whole state.

The support I've had from home has made it so much more fun to put music out.

I'm young, but I've been doing this a long time... There's obviously a lot of hard work that goes into it. It's a hard town. There's a lot of talent here. It's all about timing, too. I just feel like I finally found the right town and the right song.

It seems like almost every day I've been able to cross things off my bucket list.

Food is always a favorite on my docket when I go somewhere.

Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That's the antithesis of the artist mentality.

I learned to write from different points of view and not just something I would say.

I love all types of music, and I think the genre lines are starting to get thinner every year.

I thought there was a glitch when they told me that in two or three weeks 'My Church' hit a million streams.

I love pop music, I love country music.

When it comes to best new artist or album or song of the year, yeah, it's very rare that you see someone in country win one of those. It's a very strong genre, and it's got roots so deep in our culture. I think the pool of voters listen more to pop and R&B and hip-hop. Those seem to be the major contenders.

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

I think about all of the freaking talent shows I've tried out for in my life, and I'm so glad I didn't make any of them.

I've never been this loud personality. I don't dominate the room when I walk into it. I save that for stage.

There are so many times I turn on the radio, and I hear a guy, and I have no idea who it is because it sounds like four other people.

I'm not in the teenybopper bracket, and I'm not in the 30-plus bracket. The fan response has been really widespread, age-wise.

I don't want to get political here, but everything I've heard out of Donald Trump is definitely, um, shocking. The fact that he's got women fans is very alarming to me, because some of the stuff that has come out of his mouth is just so awful.

Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love love songs, but we do have more to talk about, so it's nice that other perspectives are coming back.

I just love Dolly so much, and Loretta. They both are songwriters that knew what they wanted to say; they were bucking a system.

I drive to clear my mind, like many people do. It's like, once you get in the car, whatever song you put on, it's so symbiotic. Your mood could change in a second.

I didn't grow up around a lot of souped-up automobiles. I love my Prius.

To turn the radio on and hear so much more diversity, it's so refreshing. That voice that cuts through what you've been hearing, it's inspiring.

I'm a '90s kid, so I loved 'NSync and the Spice Girls.