I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.

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.

Blessed is the society with elderly souls.

Attitude is the source of beauty, self-confidence, success and happiness.

I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.

I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.

Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage

The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.

You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.