The Voice 2013: Holly Tucker, Former Team Blake Shelton Contestant, Talks Confidence Issues, ‘How Great Thou Art,’ Elimination, More

Holly Tucker, a native of Waco, Texas. and a country girl at heart, made it all the way to the Top 6 on Season 4 of NBC's "The Voice" before America sent her home.

The former member of Team Blake Shelton sat down with TVLine to talk about her confidence issues, risky song choices and more. Here are a few highlights:

"Early in the season, you talked about being plagued by confidence issues, but the first week of voting - the Live Playoffs - America put you through based on your performance of 'How Do I Live.' Did that help to wash away any insecurities you might've had?

It was really cool. I mean, going into this, I never really knew how far I was going to make it. The fact that America related to me and kept sending me through to the next round, it made me feel really humbled and grateful.

Are those confidence issues a thing of the past?

Yeah, for sure. Being on this platform, it's given me everything that I need to go forward. The biggest thing I needed was confidence, and I know that now I have Blake Shelton behind me and I have my fans behind me. Hopefully, country music will accept me into their world because I love it. It's my passion and my dream.

I thought your riskiest song choice was definitely "How Great Thou Art." We've never seen anyone do a traditional hymn on one of these shows, and with iTunes sales being a major factor in the voting results, you had to wonder: "Are people going to buy this?" When you got up Tuesday morning and saw that the song had charted pretty high, what did you think?

My mind was blown. I actually was afraid of doing that song because I thought it was going to have the opposite response. I worried people were going to condemn me for it, but then I thought, 'If I'm going to be honest with America about who I am, then I've got to show every single part of me - and my faith is a huge part of my life.' When Blake brought me this song - he is the one who suggested it - I jumped on it. I was like, 'This is meant to happen. I feel led to do this song.' So, I left the all the risk behind me and I didn't think about it. My feeling was, "If I'm going to go home, this is a good song to do it with," because it explains every bit of who I am.

After your elimination on Top 6 results night, you said that you were a human waterfall. How hard was it to go home just two weeks before the finale?

The hardest part was knowing that my teammates were still there and I was finally having to leave them. We've been pretty much living together in the same space for the past two months now, so we've gotten really close. But while this journey with is ending, really you have to look at the positive and the silver lining. This whole Voice show is just meant to be a platform for us to jump-start our careers. It's not meant to be our entire life. You know? It's supposed to help us out for the future."

Check out the full interview here.