I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

When your roots grow out and things go south, go back to the salon

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.

I live on hairspray. The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

Really skinny actresses make me hungry. I see them and think, 'Honey, you need to eat!'

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.

The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.

Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.

I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

RoboCop was maybe the best summer of my entire life.

I have it on good authority that Victor's going to have car trouble. Also that Robert really likes Cheerios, so if you want some, you're out of luck. He doesn't seem like the sharing type.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.