When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

What I'm not about is exploiting women.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life.

As far as how I grew up, and who is in my life, it's still a very complicated thing as far as how I want to get that across.

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.