Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that

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.

Where your treasure is there will your heart be also.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

If your ratings are high and there’s money being made, you’re allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

Always gone but never hard to find.. And since you can't escape me, do I ever cross your mind?

I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

Remember the saying, What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger? It's true!

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.