Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.

I never listened to country music growing up.

Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.

Once you get away from where youre from you look at it in a different way.

I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.

Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.

No one else knows the whole story. I was there. I lived through it.

I can assure the people of Alabama I have never done anything illegal.

I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breath more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things shall be yours.

If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.

No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.

The ability to identify someone at a moment's notice by snapping a photo of him or her, to trigger an immediate influx of data about the person behind the face, will forever change the world.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

I am superior to negative thoughts and low actions.

I've always been about less government.

God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life.

No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.

Follow your heart and make it your decision.

An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.