I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

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.

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

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.

If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

I have always been afraid of banks.

My mother, oddly enough, really wanted to pursue a career in law, but at the time, she had children and was working as a teacher.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.

Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.

Public sharing is an important part of science.

The world's problems make us think about who we are and where we stand, and how we measure up.