Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

Don't Panic

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them

There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.

Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.