Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, who was on “The Voice” AND “American Idol.” Her album released last August has gained over three million streams, and she has also had success with honors on the video side. She will be performing in no fewer than nine different states and has also performed on the Vans Warped Tour.
"Everything I write... is usually about something I've actually experienced."
"To me piano is chromatic and it's such an important instrument for any musician, I think, to be able to reference, because you can literally find every note right there and it's so visualized... for my brain it helps me connect a lot of things. When I'm building a chord it's a lot easier to see the keys in front of me and understand why."
"To me the world is so small. You can get anywhere in one day. I'm a traveler, I'm a wanderer, I can be wherever I need to be whenever I need to be there."
"I am at a point in my life where if you don't like me, I don't really care because I'm happy and I love what I do. And that's what matters. And that's also a big part of my message."
"The Voice was very hard for me. I had just turned 21. It was my first time ever in Hollywood. I had never even been to California before. And so I was freaking out a little bit."
"To get this call from Universal, I was like, 'Oh my god, I'm going to make it!' And then you get there and nobody turns around and I didn't really get the nicest feedback and I was like, 'I'm not going to make it'."
"I thought, I don't want to be trapped in Slapout (Alabama) forever. I love where I'm from. I love my roots. I love the values that that has given me. But, music is something that I can't stop. I just, I can't. I'm incapable. That's the one thing I can't do is quit music."
"It was actually a blessing in disguise that I didn't get aired at all on The Voice season three because I would've been under a reality hold and I would've never been able to be on Idol the year that I was on it."
"I loved American Idol. I still have friends from that show. They're amazing people. It's an amazing production. And it's very fun. I mean, it's work. It's not everything you see on TV... But it was the education of a lifetime."
"Through the social media you're gonna get hate no matter what. So, that's one major turning point in my life, through American Idol, that taught me to just be okay with being myself."
"I really truly feel like I was born to do what I'm doing and that's why I'm doing it."
"Every disappointment, every letdown that you ever encounter in life you never know what's going to happen. You really just have to follow what you love."
"It's all about relationships. You never know who you're talking to."
"I lived my life getting picked on a lot. I've had to work through that, obviously, I had self-esteem issues and eating problems because of that."
"Children are the future, and we need to take care of them. And what we show them is what they're going to learn."
"Love Her Better"
"Thank God It Didn't Work"