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

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.

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.

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

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

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

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

The earth had two childrenA son named Adamand a daughter

Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done its work we will find what's happened to those weapons because he had them.

Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.