I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Whited sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outward but are within full of dead men's bones.

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything.

Technology has changed everything.