I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.

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.

Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own

To love someone is to identify with them.

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.