I'm from Michigan, but I'm just as country as anyone else. Maybe I don't have the speaking voice of most country singers, but it is what I love. It's….

I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl..

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class..

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people..

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind..

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan..

In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy..

So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the U….