Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.

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.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

Kill me. If you’ve ever been my friend, kill me.

You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

History is the revelation of Providence.

I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then there were things like the film "The Sorrow And The Pity."

A writer is always working.