Country music has always sort of been country music.

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.

On GOALSETTING: "I don't enjoy talking about what I am GOING to DO. I prefer to let folks find out what I've DONE.

Inspiration is someone who gives you freedom to think out of his own ways. He doesn't want you to believe in his own ideas.

The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

Being an Olympic runner and now a mommy, it is so important to me to help my children learn early on how to be active and stay healthy.

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.

Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.