Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

Some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.

In the moment of decision, may you hear the voice of the Creator saying, ‘This is right road, travel on it.

Whatever happened to you yesterday no longer matters. Be present. Today is going to be a great day.

Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

The phrase ‘the Internet never forgets’ is complete bollocks

In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.