Im all about small towns. I think its a great place to grow up.

Follow your arrow / Wherever it points.

I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

Don’t wreck my reputation / Let me wreck my own

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

Say what you think / Love who you love.

Obviously, I dont live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like theres definitely something to it.

I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along to.

Live your Life as you want Life to be Lived

I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.

Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day

Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.

Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.

Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.