Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

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!'

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

It’s not about working for money, it’s about having money work for you.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

...I don't want to mar the moment with questions. By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Karma will lead you to a larger more expansive happier view or a dinger darker view. That view will enable you to make choices and have experiences.

I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.

The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it.

It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.

loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.