I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan and I'm still not.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.

The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.

Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Thus went my first Court Day. I think i'm going to puke.

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.