"When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas."

"I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned."

"Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness."

"Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted."

"My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy."

"High school is such a shared experience in North American culture."

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching."

"I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher."