Really skinny actresses make me hungry. I see them and think, 'Honey, you need to eat!'

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

When your roots grow out and things go south, go back to the salon

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.

I live on hairspray. The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

If only we could understand the language of the eyes, there would be more love in our world!

It is better to live with faith than fear.

Don't be afraid to question. Don't be afraid to get fired. Don't be afraid to be wrong.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.

I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.