There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.

Family is fun, way more fun than music.

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music.

I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.

I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.

I think most performers are just lazy.

Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

Love is—a shade of what I feel.

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.

Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

Religion should be dearer than life itself.

You have to put your body on the line from time to time in order to make a statement or change a law.

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.