The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Diamonds are the result of extreme pressures. So is success.

Ash held one finger up. "OK. Now li

I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

I'm fighting myself every day to get better.

We cannot build our lives around what might happen tomorrow.