I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.

Take Care of Yourself First- It’s Easier to Serve Others That Way.

Stop what you are doing. Go outside and breathe. The world will not end if you take ten minutes for yourself.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am.

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

I certainly wasn’t Roger Deakins, but I felt like I could be.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.