When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

The biggest cause of divorce is marriage.

Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.

I simply find that as a songwriter, my goal is to try to move people. And I feel that before I can move other people, I have to genuinely be able to move myself.

Love is the only reason that is reason enough

It’s very difficult to follow our dreams, but it’s even more difficult to forget them.

Family isn't blood, " she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.

The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

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