I think being a Texan - we sort of have that extra fire in us as a breed. I just felt like from day one I had something to say and I wanted to make sure people heard me, and it's worked.

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 key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.

If by fawning, you mean he’s a deer, I have a gun, and it’s hunting season, then I guess you’re right.

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

Just a few daily disciplines make a big difference

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.