I live on hairspray. The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

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.

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.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.

Dating becomes a cutthroat game of musical chairs with everyone scrambling for available partners to avoid standing alone at 30 when the music stops.

On the perfect night there is nothing more transcendent or terrifying than boxing. It's the ultimate representation of the guilty pleasure.

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

To fight the violence we must be brave, hold on strong to the love God gave.

True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

I don't know why it is, but I do like dancing in the extreme situations. I like that noise, I like that intensity. For some reason, it's what I respond to in terms of my taste and of my instincts.

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."