If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.