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

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.

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

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

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 greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Worldly life (sansar) means to get tired and to rest.

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.

I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.

All's love, yet all's law.

And always remember how much your crazy sister loves you.