I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom.

To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

The more aspiration is partial realization.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

Alan Webb is the best thing to happen in this event, but professionals and collegiates don't want to lose to high school guys. I don't want to lose to no one.

Fiction is a branch of neurology

We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is.

Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court.

The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.