I don't really do acting. I've done a little bit - enough to know I'll stick to what I know. Music is my thing.

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.

All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere! (Linus)

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.