The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

She's a dark-eyed, red flame, bohemian hurricane.

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.

We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

It's always fun to improvise. What's weird is that when you're recording, you're by yourself, for the most part.