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.'

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.

God indeed has given the earth under to the control of man.

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

You can't go through life trying to please everyone.

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.

Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.