I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.

There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.

All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in.

Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic.

He doesn’t beat me,” I said irritably. “I’d kill him if he did.” “She would. She has a temper. Stubborn, too. But we’re working on that, aren’t we, Ms. Lane?

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

If you have good friends, don't look for treasure because you are already rich; if you have just treasure, look for good friends, because you are still poor!

Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.