At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone..

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.

..And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive

“There’s one thing that is guaranteed to increase your feelings of control over your life: a bias toward action.” 

“You Are One Decision Away from a Completely Different Life” 

In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis.

There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.

Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

If 'Party of Five' hadn't done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if 'Time of Your Life' doesn't do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the worst. This is a very fickle business.

Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.

I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed.

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.