I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.

I think shoulders are sexier than cleavage.

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you’re not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.

When I go onstage, I kind of turn into a beast sometimes, this alter-ego, you know.

I've always had a fighter's spark in me. I was born with it. I think it's in my blood.

It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.

Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience, you can't go wrong.

Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists.

Every new journey transforms the traveler.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.

There has to be a force on the horizon that can come very quickly. But the way we run and fund peacekeeping, this capacity is unavailable.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.