Quotes from Lauren Alaina

I've been really fortunate with touring and sales and all those things because I have such a loyal fan base.

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.

I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!

I had five singles that did not work on country radio, and I still had fans that showed up to the shows.

I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.

I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy.

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 wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

I meal prep when I'm traveling and make sure to have three solid, high-protein and low-carb meals a day with a few snacks in between. But I try not to be too hard on myself. At the end of the day, it's all about having a healthy balance.

I want to be happy. We all want to be happy. I want to be treated like a normal human being, but I also want to be on stage in a fancy dress, so I'm trying to find a happy medium.

I was slightly starstruck by Justin Bieber! I mean, he is cute!

I really, really look up to Carrie Underwood a lot because she came from a small town that has the same population as mine - 3,500 people.

There are so many people who have eating disorders or who body shame themselves every day or have some sort of insecurity, and I feel like I have a direct reach to some of those people.

My first kiss was in 7th grade. It grossed me out. I kind of freaked out!

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.

As a 15, 16-year-old girl, someone messaging you on Facebook and telling you you're fat is devastating. It's still devastating when someone says something horrible about me, but I love myself so much more as a person.

It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That's what's great about it.

My mom made me look in the mirror every day and say three things that I loved about myself. At first, I couldn't name anything. It was so sad. When my mom made me do that, I looked in the mirror, and I literally couldn't name one thing that I loved about myself.

I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.

I love to go to school. My favourite subject is math, and I'm - actually, I just love high school more than anything, probably.

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

I've always dreamed of doing a music video.

I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.

I got to express myself in a whole new way as a different person on camera, in a different way as an actress, and I loved it.