I would love being the soccer mom.

I loved the Dixie Chicks. They were always so fun.

I just want to be a good mom who makes her little girl proud.

I had a perfect pregnancy and a perfect delivery. I was very blessed.

All I can do is be my best - there will always be people who will never like me.

I would like to be like Britney, but maybe better, but I don't wanna outshine her.

I would like to be like Britney, but maybe better. But I don't wanna outshine her.

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

It takes bravery to be a young mom, and it does take bravery to let the world watch.

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom.

I just want a healthy, happy baby, so the whether it's a boy or a girl really doesn't matter.

I really like Holly Williams. I've said that a bunch, but her song 'Drinkin',' I just love it.

The first year of marriage, you definitely get to throw the wife card out whenever you're mad.

I eat ranch dressing with my pizza; I dip it in the ranch. It is so good! I know, I am really weird .

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

It's a different process for me, but it's really cool to hear someone else singing the song that you wrote.

That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists.

I knew deep down that I was going to have my little girl, even if I had to raise her on my own, which is what I did.

I would be lying if I said if I didn't miss out on what normal teenagers do, of course. But I don't need pity for that.

I listen to every type of music there is, and I also have a little girl, so I listen to ultra-fun Disney stars' music as well.

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing. but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Me and my dad, we'd go to the dirt bike races every year. I mean we'd go probably too much every year. And he would make me listen to all country music.

Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home was. It's just a very natural choice.

I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.

I love babies, and I have my nephews that I love. I have a great mom and she has raised three kids, so if I take lessons from her, I think I'll be great. All my friends have little brothers or sisters.

Of course, you want to be respected by your peers, and you want people to connect to you as an artist, but for me, it's more about staying true to myself and doing something I believe in and focusing on that.

I would say the only thing I may change is that my whole family could live in Louisiana. That would be nice if all our houses were a block away from each other. That, to me, would be the best thing in the entire world.

I lived in Nashville for about five years. It was almost like me going to college for my craft. I immersed myself in the songwriting community there. They embraced me, and I made some real friends but also learned so much.

Truthfully, my childhood was so fun. Everything was new, and everything was like Christmas because we were just from this small town, and my sister had amazing success. It was so amazing to see my sister reach such heights.

I'm still the same artist; it's just different sides of me. I'm learning to be a little bit more confident in myself and I think that's something that all of us girls struggle with. It's really about defining your confidence.

I hope that they learn who I am today and embrace that as well. I think that's the biggest thing of really introducing myself to them. Hopefully that creates a stronger connection with the fans that I already have and hopefully helps me make some new fans.

Obviously, my daughter keeps me motivated, but I've got a really great support system. Having my husband and my mother and my family really support me, so that I can not only provide for my daughter, but I can set up a future that creates a better life for her.

Alabama is somebody that I have always loved, but I think what is so cool about them - it's amazing, actually - is that even people who aren't enormous fans, you know their music. You know of them; you know what they've done in the music world. I think that really says something about them.

I think sometimes I forget that I'm 25, and I can have fun, and be flirty, and be confident, but still be completely in control. All of my new songs are empowering, but at the same time they're fun. I think that's important for women. You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

I think it was important for me to introduce myself as an artist for the first time because I'm very proud of my past, it's all a part of my story, but this is who I am now. This was a really important thing to have an hour special that lets them in and kind of meet me for the first time, truthfully.

I had a girls' writing retreat at my condo and a bunch of other female writers came down. Me and two other writers got there before everyone and they pitched this idea to me. At first I wasn't sure what direction it was going in, but then once they kind of explained to me what they were thinking, we wrote it.

I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself. I write about growing up, my family, Maddie and getting pregnant. If I've lived it, why wouldn't I talk about it? I guess that's been the coolest thing - realizing that it's OK to just be myself and really tell my story.

I'm so blessed to be able to work with some of the best writers out there, and it's kind of like college with me sitting in a room with some of the best of the best and really taking it in and learning from them, but then also taking time to sit and tell them my stories - it's one of the biggest blessings that could have ever happened.

It was a scary decision to let cameras into my life, but if I was going to do it, I just wanted to be really honest and kind of introduce myself as an adult. I think the world met me as a young girl, and they still associate me with who I was when I was 13, they still don't understand how over the last eight years what has happened and who I've become.

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