Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions

The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

Probability is the very guide of life.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.