At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

When your roots grow out and things go south, go back to the salon

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.

I live on hairspray. The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

Really skinny actresses make me hungry. I see them and think, 'Honey, you need to eat!'

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

As you cannot do what you wish you should wish what you can do.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.

I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.

I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.

I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.

Only those who serve with love are able to protect!