I'm a romantic at heart.

I say that I get paid to travel, and I play the shows for free.

Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because its scary.

The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.

Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.

Honky Tonk Badonkadonk wasnt some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

Spell is a structured words that creates miracles in mind.

Watch out for what people commend you for and do it diligently. Don’t stop if compliments no longer come.

Through seeing the good in others, you also see the best within yourself.

Self-awareness is inevitably erratic, a work in progress, an etch-a-sketch that shifts with the slightest shimmer of movement. Doing the best we can is the best we can do.

Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.