- [on inviting audience members to join her onstage] I do try to assess "Is this person drunk?" or "Is this person going to be hysterical and not manageable?" And so I do watch the body language. I don't always get it quite right, but I've never had any security issues.
- [on incorporating live animals into her act] They have a mind of their own. Sometimes they'll pee onstage or sometimes they'll poo. We just never know really what's going to happen. The unpredictability keeps us on our toes.
- It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.
- When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.
- Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.
- I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
- I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
- There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.
- I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
- Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.
- I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
- Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
- I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.
- I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.
- I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.
- Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.
- Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.
- One day, someone said to me, "Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?" I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, "Why not?" And every day since then, I ask myself that question.
- Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.
- I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
- I enjoy sports in person.
- I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.
- You learn to accept your own reality.
- I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.
- I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.
- Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
- My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
- My life revolves around my child's routine.
- I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.
- I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!
- I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.
- Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.
- I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.
- Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
- I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.
- So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.
- It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
- Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
- I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.
- Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
- I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.
- I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.
- I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.
- Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.
- I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.
- I really can't imagine not singing again.
- If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
- I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.
- I don't take any day for granted anymore.
- I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
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