It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular.

My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.

Good music is good music.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major.After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

Most people thought he was insane when he looked up into the sky with a simple handmade telescope and cried out that the Earth revolves around the Sun, because this was four years ago.

This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.

Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.

The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody.

I prefer to concentrate on my task of leading Europe to the success that our citizens expect. We have to look forwards now because what is at stake is what makes Europe Europe.

Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.