The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.

My life started being awesome five years ago.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.

I always want to stretch myself and do something that I haven't done before.

It’s funny – my married friends tell me all the time, 'What you have is so much easier.' When you’re doing it on your own, you don't have to [argue over] how you're raising the kids.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Gentle reminder, Smile please.

What you've already known stops you to wonder and it gives you peace.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and 90s music to Dave Matthews.

The world needs ditch diggers, too.