I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

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.

The beautiful thing about young love is the truth in our hearts that it will last forever.

If you can drink beer while doing it, it's not a sport

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him. "For time to stop. "Why?" He shrugs. "Cause I could live forever at this moment.