I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.

My first place in Nashville was like Animal House. The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

My best friend from college engineered my record. He and I keep in touch on just a purely one-music-fan-to-another basis.

Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.

No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.

I'm really lucky to have some super-talented friends.

I try to aim high and put myself in positions where I'm the least experienced person.

Things have always happened better for me than I could plan them to.

Things just always seem to lead to the logical next step.

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides.

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.