I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.

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

Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she. begun.

The mind is massive ocean.

But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.

I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.

Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make.

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.