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.

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

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 think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.

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

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Sounds to me like he's on the toilet.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

Ask yourself to slow down.

If you want to see the real Saints, don't go to the Temples of the Religion, but go to the Temples of the Science!

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.