I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

Follow your arrow / Wherever it points.

I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

Say what you think / Love who you love.

Obviously, I dont live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like theres definitely something to it.

I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along to.

poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Marketing is always a tricky thing with a rated R movie. Sometimes people just get what it is and they want to come see it, and sometimes you have to explain it more.

God's path always delivers what He promises.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Love is the door to eternity.

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.