I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

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.

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Consciously cultivate the ordinary.

Living together is an art.