I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.

Never settle for the path of least resistance

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is

His pen spoke more to her than he ever did”.In the war of words, some are unwritten and some are unspoken.

What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

If people could walk around in suits of energy, that would be cool. Other than that, I don't think men should wear spandex.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.

Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.