People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.

I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun.

I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me.

I do remember the people who believed in me in the beginning. I'll never forget that.

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

I think I have a good head on my shoulders.

I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it.

I think music changes and it evolves.

Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'

In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…

There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

I won't trade humanity for patriotism.

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

I want to do something extraordinary, not just make a tackle. I want to make people's eyes widen, like, 'God, you see that?

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

Absolutely, it's a Sunni area. So the key here, once Ramadi is taken that you have the Sunni tribal fighters, Sunni police in there patrolling the city.