When I did the video for "Piledriver Waltz," I was thinking about rodeo clowns, and how they're risking their lives just to keep an entire arena laug….

I used to say that I was making "country music," because it was the quickest, easiest answer. I'm obviously heavily influenced by country music. Ther….

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when….

My Facebook page confuses a lot of people. I'll post a Beyoncé Knowles song, and, people are like, "What are you doing?! This is bullshit," and I'm l….

I'm not a queen of anything, you know..

I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and, I didn't want to be the girl who….

I got an email from my dad after the Super Bowl, and he was like, "Will you send me all of the Beyoncé Knowles songs that you have on your computer?"….

Love is like a promise. Once you break it.. it doesn't come back unless you really fight for it..

I went to England because somebody told me to, and I loved it. And, "blessed" is a silly word to use for some people, but that's how I feel. I feel b….

I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were bu….

I was probably 16.I played - I tried to play these songs that I had written. And, this was a common theme when I was younger: I would write a song ab….

My new favorite thing is to wake up in hotel rooms, and write on the hotel pads. Usually, it's nothing. I leave it in a hotel and get really embarras….

It was so strange, coming from Nashville, Tennessee, where I was playing to 15 people, to going to London and playing in this crowded little dive pub….

As a clown, you're letting go of all of your bullshit..

I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back. I'm interacting..

I had a really bad blushing problem when I was younger. The first time I ever performed was in an English class. I had an essay that I was supposed t….

Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point of, almost stumping myself, sometimes..

Anyway, this huge Lena Dunham interview in Playboy. It felt like a shifting, of some kind. This new female archetype - this new, powerful, honest, no….

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of..

I like buying iTunes. It's instant..