I always want to stretch myself and do something that I haven't done before.

The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

My life started being awesome five years ago.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.

It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness -- happiness on my own terms.

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.

You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

I never took to Hollywood.

Meditation has really helped with keeping my center.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.