The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life - just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I'm doing what I'm doing. I just thank Him. I don't know how I deserve it, but it's completely because of Him.
Lauren Alaina
Before I go to bed, I thank God for blessing me with all the things he blessed me with, and for my family to be safe.
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.
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 don't like fake people.
I grew up eating fried food. I thought that macaroni and cheese was a vegetable.
I always put God first.
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.
I want to write with Taylor Swift!
I have insecurity problems like every teenage girl, but you have to work through them.
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.
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.
Remember that it's okay to get help, and it doesn't make you weak.
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.
I had to learn correct portion control. I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.
I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.
Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened to me!'
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.
I think my favorite artists are honest artists, and as a songwriter, that's what you have to do. You have to be willing to put yourself out there in a really vulnerable way.
I don't have those superstitious ticks that people have to have something for the road. I like to have good food on the bus, my own pillow, and onesies. Onesies are a must.
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 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.
None of my friends act any differently towards me, which is great. I was scared about that, so scared about that.
I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.
I've always been interested in acting - since I was a little girl.
I'm still learning to love myself.
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 slightly starstruck by Justin Bieber! I mean, he is cute!
I want to be the girl who has a positive influence on people's lifestyle. I don't want to be the girl who has an eating disorder, and that's why she looks the way she looks.
I had five singles that did not work on country radio, and I still had fans that showed up to the shows.
I remember my doctors examining my vocal cords and asking if I had an eating disorder, and I instantly said no. But then my mom, who was in the room with me, said my name in her 'mom voice,' and I just lost it. I didn't realize that she knew or that anyone knew.
You have to accept yourself so everyone else can.
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 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 like having curves. Curves are in!
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.
'Doin' Fine' is a really special song because it's uplifting but really honest at the same time.
I just desperately wanted to be thin. That's all I thought. I was obsessed with it, which it was ridiculous because I had everything going for me. I was following my dream. Everything I wanted at the time, I was getting. But I was obsessed with this other thing that was making me unhappy.
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.
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.
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.
I love to go to school. My favourite subject is math, and I'm - actually, I just love high school more than anything, probably.
I've been really fortunate with touring and sales and all those things because I have such a loyal fan base.
To see your dad cry is like - It's different than to see your mom cry, you know?
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 parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people.
My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.
I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy.
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.
He might be my boyfriend. He might not be my boyfriend.
