Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.

That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.