Quotes from Lauren Alaina

I would see these people calling me 'fat' and calling me horrible names. And this one page called me 'Miss Piggy,' and they only referred to me as 'Miss Piggy.' I was a 16-year-old girl. I did not know how to deal with that, and I was already insecure about my weight.

I just want to inspire people to love other people and be accepting because I feel like there's so much going on in the world, and there's so many pressures, and there's so much negativity.

People are pretty because they're nice, and they care about other people, and they have a good heart. That's what makes you pretty, and I didn't know that at one point in my life.

I want to write with Taylor Swift!

None of my friends act any differently towards me, which is great. I was scared about that, so scared about that.

Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret.

I don't like fake people.

I have insecurity problems like every teenage girl, but you have to work through them.

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.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

My mom quit her whole life and came to live with me in California.

As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I'm obsessed with it.

Shania Twain and Martina McBride and all these wonderful women were saying that it's awesome to be a woman, and it's awesome to be a confident woman. Obviously, I could never compare myself to them, and I want to be my own thing, but I think that message is what I want to say as an artist.

I was really fearful that I was going to lose my record deal. It's really scary as a female to not have that success early on in your career, 'cause you don't know how many chances you are going to get.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

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.

I'm a goofball, and I have this huge personality, and I used to try to hide that. I used to try to kind of dim my light.

Self-confidence is something I've always lacked in. But finally, at some point, I just decided to be honest.

I want to make people feel good about who they are regardless of who they are or where they come from or the color of their skin or what their family acts like or what they look like. I am all about acceptance of others and of yourself.

I like any song that can tell a story that people can relate to.

It is a horrible feeling to have people bashing you online.

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

I try to remind myself of the things that I like about myself that make me who I am.

I don't mind if people say I was on 'American Idol,' because I was, and that is a part of my past, and I'm super proud of it, but I don't want that to be all there is to me.