top of page
More

"I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was."
Author Name
Personal Development

"But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol."
Author Name
Personal Development

"You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally."
Author Name
Personal Development

"With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."
Author Name
Personal Development

"But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood."
Author Name
Personal Development
More


"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane."
Order


"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."
Music


"I know my flaws before other people point them out to me."
People


"In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature."
Business


"I'm a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, 'cause I remember it all too well."
Emotion


"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
Being


"'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up."
Love


"If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have and the thing we've seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that's going to be our least favourite thing."
Philosophy


"There are no rules when it comes to love."
Love


"As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons. And sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn't be full and the mantle would be a little more empty."
Growth
bottom of page