Both my mom and my grandma were really big influences on me not only by being strong and teaching me to be strong but also owning their salt as well.

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.

Some people think that the world revolves around them but even the Sun is not the center of the Universe.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.