Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.

Never settle for the path of least resistance

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

I was a slave to my own darkness, believing in my false created, thought-identified identity so much that it forged what felt like a wasteland of a reality.

I told my brothers what happened. Are you ready to come meet them?" She straightened. "Aye." "I warn you, " he teased in an attempt to lighten the mood. "They're big, burly bampots.

Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

Do you believe in God?" "Which one?

I live absolutely like an oyster.

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.