Lauren Alaina

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

“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'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.”

“To see your dad cry is like - It's different than to see your mom cry, you know?”

“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 keep the people who I know love me really close.”

“I don't think that anyone was trying to keep me from writing the first album. It's just when you're on 'American Idol' or a TV show like that, you wanna capitalize on that momentum, and you want to use that to your advantage, obviously, so the best way to do that is to get the music out as fast as possible. And there's no time to create, really.”

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

“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.”

“There were blogs that called me Miss Piggy. It's a really hard thing to see as a teenager, especially when you already have problems. Reading what people had to say about me online definitely made it worse. People can be vicious.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I want that to be my overall message - that we just need to love each other. We need to love other more.”

“I want to write with Taylor Swift!”

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

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

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