I feel like if you turn on country radio, you will find something you'll love because it's so diverse.And that's a great 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.

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

Trust in time rather than timing.

I have to keep testing myself.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

Before you judge another, ask yourself if what you don't like in them is actually what you don't like in yourself.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.