I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

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.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

To be struck twice by two different cyclones is unusual, to say the least.

Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.

My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.

Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.