I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

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.

In the depths of hell roasting on a spit if it meant getting to be close to you.

Make someone feel something and you will never be forgotten.

Our enemies have made the mistake that America's enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.

I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn't like that. My dad wasn't and I wasn't. Things were said, but via the language of action.

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.