Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

If it's a real dream it's uncrushable.

Life is about holding on and letting go.

Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.

Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

There is no doubt PC prices will be coming down.

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking.

Being in love is an exhausting business.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This is what you are, and I am the lowly woman that adores you.

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.