I'm a home girl. I like to stay home

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.

You can't force people to buy a product, and then if they don't buy it, you fine them.

I love to see people recognized [me on scene].

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.

One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

There is nothing to do but be.

Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

I'm seeing too many geeky, nerdy kids get addicted to video games and they're going nowhere. It's making me crazy.