Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened to me!'

I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.

I had to learn correct portion control. I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.

I'm a goofball, and I have this huge personality, and I used to try to hide that. I used to try to kind of dim my light.

Remember that it's okay to get help, and it doesn't make you weak.

I want to make people feel good about who they are regardless of who they are or where they come from or the color of their skin or what their family acts like or what they look like. I am all about acceptance of others and of yourself.

It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That's what's great about it.

I have insecurity problems like every teenage girl, but you have to work through them.

I want to write with Taylor Swift!

I just want to inspire people to love other people and be accepting because I feel like there's so much going on in the world, and there's so many pressures, and there's so much negativity.

I always put God first.

I grew up eating fried food. I thought that macaroni and cheese was a vegetable.

I don't like fake people.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

People are pretty because they're nice, and they care about other people, and they have a good heart. That's what makes you pretty, and I didn't know that at one point in my life.

Before I go to bed, I thank God for blessing me with all the things he blessed me with, and for my family to be safe.

The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life - just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I'm doing what I'm doing. I just thank Him. I don't know how I deserve it, but it's completely because of Him.

I moved to Naples, Florida, and by 15 I was into punk: Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Operation Ivy. Along with the classic punk bands, like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat - all those bands that you get into when you're first getting into punk.

At 8, I got my first cassette, which was Def Leppard's 'Hysteria.'

My father was stationed in Italy in the military. I had no one to feed me what was cool, so I was into Guns N' Roses and New Kids on the Block and MC Hammer and a lot of '80s hair bands. But I was never into Motley Crue, they never stuck with me.

At 20, I was married, working as an auto mechanic, and living in Gainesville. I was doing Against Me!, but it wasn't by any means a full-time gig.

I just always knew that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician. I never had any doubts.

Living in Italy meant growing up without MTV.

What people don't realize when they talk about our lineup changes is that the original Against Me! broke up in 2001. It never recorded a full-length record.