I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

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.

You can lock a lion up in a room, if you want to, but you'll still hear it growling and clawing to get out.

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.

I am not the type of person who believes everything she reads, but I like to look at photos and see what people are wearing.

I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

I wouldn't wear makeup, and I didn't like to let boys open the door for me because I felt like it was sexist.