Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.