I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

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.

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

That which is cool is driven by the soul.

One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.

Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.

A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.