"When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal..." — Taylor Swift

For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.