I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.

Follow your arrow / Wherever it points.

I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

Say what you think / Love who you love.

Obviously, I dont live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like theres definitely something to it.

I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along to.

There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source.

Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

Who's next! I got milk baby, who's next!

I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.

Seek not outside yourself, Heaven is within.

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.