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

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!