Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

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.

Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.

When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.

I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.

The more experienced you are, the better off you are.

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.