You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can. I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

When your roots grow out and things go south, go back to the salon

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.

I live on hairspray. The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

The road is hard, and you have to get accustomed to it.

Really skinny actresses make me hungry. I see them and think, 'Honey, you need to eat!'

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

Dave had been fun when they’d first dated. Then impending fatherhood had sobered him at the same time Mickle and Company had crooked its finger, turning him from Mr. Right to Mr. Wrong.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Dark money has turned our elections into auctions

The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation.

I think Test cricket is the ultimate form of cricket.

There is always more information than attention

In limited professions there's boundless theft.