Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

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.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Do good even if no one is watching you and do it as if everyone is watching you.

People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.

Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.

President Obama is funny, he's thoughtful, he's challenging, he's fun to work with - and it's been an extraordinary privilege.