You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.

Never settle for the path of least resistance

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'

Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

I love insult, it's always honest.

And, as Stevie Rae would have said, Kalona was as wrong as manboobs.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

I met BSB at a benefit gig we were both doing, and they are really humble, nice guys - and very hard working