Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

First love, " said Ida with a sigh. "That's the one that kills you.

Flowers wither knowing that you exist.

Fantasies hurt. They hurt hard and deep. They lifted you up to places that you could never reach, then they let you down with a crash.

We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year be on the receiving end of this demagoguery.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.