Good music is good music.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular.

My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.

Omitting the truth is its own kind of lie.

Sell to their needs-not from yours.

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for a new feeling of clarity and motivation.

Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive

We all make mistakes, and it's not until we make mistakes that we learn.

To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you

The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.