You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

Every girl should have at least one wild fling on her resumé.

As I enlarged my vision to see the bigger picture of my dad’s full life, I was better able to let go of being stuck in memories of its end.

Intuition is the lifeblood of a woman and the essential character of a man."-Serena Jade

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

When people don't want to come nothing will stop them.

Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.

[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was cool. It wasn't in every one of those comedies.

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.