I always sang harmony with my family growing up.

Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet.

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think we're talking about right now - the pressure to learn how to budget, the pressure to really abandon everything that you ever learned. You don't have a comfort zone anymore. You don't have your neighborhood. You don't have your family with you.

I wasn't born into a family that told me that I wasn't capable of what my brother was capable of. I can do anything.

I don't know that I could pick a better place to raise a family than Nashville.