It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

My life started being awesome five years ago.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.

I always want to stretch myself and do something that I haven't done before.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places is your time to rule in your own territory.

I never really said all those things I said

Letting go of control, that's actually when you're safe.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

I try to move people emotionally.

In order to receive a pardon you must plead guilty.

The caviar was very high quality. I made an acting decision on the spot that Ismay was a big eater.

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.