One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.
From Taylor Swift
There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.
It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!
People don't usually compliment your character.
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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