I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.

Family is fun, way more fun than music.

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.

I think most performers are just lazy.

Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

Nothing has changed, except everything.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, can command any wages or salaries.

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.