I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

I don’t give sick days if you’re playing in the snow.” He’s being funny, or trying to be funny. I can never tell which.

Cast your anxious thoughts upon the Lord. He waits to hear you speak!

There's a new iPad out...People are going nuts for this thing...And, today, Mitt Romney said, 'It's a flat piece of white plastic. If you can love it, why not me?'

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.

A poet must learn to wage war.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition is no longer with us!