I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular.

My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.

Good music is good music.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Our ignorance of the meaning of the existence of one or another creation does not mean they are meaningless

Inside of you is your love, not beside you. She is just there to remind you of where you placed her heart.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

I've always loathed rich people, so I've become who I've loathed, which makes it doubly difficult, if you can follow me.

Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.