I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot.

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

We only have one rule and that is there are no rules, so stand up and sing as much as you want to.

Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.

If something or someone's really bugging you, just sit on it. Just sit on it.

I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed.

I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water.

I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.

We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.

I'm not good at multi-tasking.

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.

These are slum kids, I was a slum kid. Everybody talks like that.

The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.