My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.

A true lover can never hate or hurt another.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.