Kellie Pickler Gives Sane Advice

 Kellie Pickler has some advice for people going through rough times: write down your thoughts for therapy.  Pickler recently told CMT.com, "I strongly encourage anyone who's going through any kind of heartache or loss -- or maybe they're happy and they're just so excited and they want to get it out -- the best thing to do is to write it down," she said. "You know, talking's great, but actually writing it down on paper is so therapeutic, and it's a way of releasing things and throwing it out there and getting it out. Because my mind is so crazy, I'm really so ADD. I'm all over the place all the time, I really am, and I am constantly going in 40 different directions nonstop all the time. It literally keeps me up. I didn't go to bed until 5 a.m. this morning. I lay in bed, and a lot of times, I just have to get something and write. I have pens and paper everywhere I go, and I just write all the time, just write stuff down, just to get it out so I'll shut up and stop thinking about it. But I encourage that for anyone that's crazy -- if they are crazy like me."  Pickler told CMT it was good friend Taylor Swift who recommended they write a song together to help Pickler get over a breakup. The resulting song, "The Best Days of Your Life," taught her the value in writing things down -- and then letting them go.Pickler goes on to say her songs typically have a bit of personal touch to them. "They always say you should leave your bags at the door and pick them up on your way out, and I totally agree," she said. "But in my case, I can't do that. My bags are my songs. 'I Wonder' -- that's a bag that I have to carry with me every time I go onstage. It's really hard to draw that line between my private, personal life and my music because I don't know how to sing about anything that I don't believe in. I can't. I've had hundreds of songs that have been pitched to me that the label thought, 'This is Kellie Pickler. She needs to cut this song.' And I hear it and I'm like, 'There is no way I'm gonna sing this song. It is not me.'"I just feel like it's important to carry out the tradition of Country Music -- and that is keeping it real," she continued. "You know, you can't listen to a Dolly [Parton] record and not feel like you're getting to know her, because her music is real. So I really want to convey who I am in my music, as well."