I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.

My music is for real women and it's about real women and I am a real woman.

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

I wish I was smaller. There are things about my face I'd change. But like all women I do the best I can.

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.

Change in all things is sweet.

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

Praise behaviour that you want repeated

Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.