I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

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

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

She is so tiresome. ‘Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I’ll be both!

Train the mind, body and spirit, so you may achieve anything. Life is about sharing your dreams/purpose (gifts/passions/talents) with the world and helping others find their way.

I am not "cured"--I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

Really young kids are into guitars.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as 't is fair.

Nobody has said to men, It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.