I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.

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.

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed my girlfriend out of her chair.

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.

So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!