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

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.

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.

Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.

Live for life.

The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed.