No matter what decision I make, I want people to know that there's a reason I made it, and it's because it was something I felt like needed to happen. I don't want people to think that I've just gone crazy.
I don't want to be the young girl that people say, 'Man, that Lauren Alaina girl, she's got a lot of talent, but she's lost her mind.' I don't ever want that to be me - ever.
I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.
I was 15 on the show, and I cried a lot. I was homesick, and was so worried, that I didn't think of being on 'American Idol.' I was so worried that I was going home every week that I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have.
I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.
When I first heard my song 'Georgia Peaches' on the radio, I opened up the car windows and started screaming to the other people on the road, 'My song's on the radio!' Of course, I wasn't driving.
I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.
No matter where you're from, what you've done, who you are, what your family's done, it's like, you cannot be healthy without love.
I grew up eating fried food. I thought that macaroni and cheese was a vegetable.
I just feel like in society and in public, we have this unspoken expectation that we're all trying to meet. And there's so much pressure to try to fit in.
I want to write with Taylor Swift!
As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I'm obsessed with it.
A lot of my fans are young women that are my age. We're all going through the same problems at the same time, so I just tried to be really honest with that.
Remember that it's okay to get help, and it doesn't make you weak.
People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.
I've got people around me that let me know when something really good happens.
I think we're all insecure about something, but there's a way to deal with those emotions healthily by seeking professional help earlier on.
