Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.

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.

Women who just don't like each other because the other one is a woman and "women don't like each other" myth - that's not interesting to me at all. How do you compete in the market place, how you stay relevant after many years of being in the public eye - all of that. To me, that's interesting and that's real.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.