I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.

Never settle for the path of least resistance

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

In fact, in Aberdeen, Washington, I am known as Mr. Small Package!

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

I'm eventually gonna take the Daryl Hannah parts.

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.