We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.