I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

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.

The greatest sacred sayings

Some of the best stories start out with a person who absolutely does not want anything to do with an adventure.

Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

Gaza will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.