I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.

In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.

I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.