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

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 think maybe we underestimate the country music audience.

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

War is the health of the state.

Sometimes things seem good at first . . . but we learn the hard way that they weren't as good as we thought.

I never know what all of these guys are thinking, but Marco Rubio sounded desperate, like, We've got a leak in the dike, we got to stop this thing.

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

We come. We go. And inbetween we try to understand.

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.