When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

The chief merit of language is clearness.

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

I have faith, I believe in God and I've gotten through all the problems I had because of those three things: my faith, my hope and my belief in an eternal God.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.