In the country field, we’re brought up in spiritual homes, we’re taught to “judge not lest you be judged,” and it’s always been a mystery to me how people jump all over things just to criticize, condemn and judge other people when that is so un-Christian – and they claim to be good Christians! We’re supposed to love one another. We’re supposed to accept and love one another. Whether we do or not, that’s a different story. But that’s what we’re supposed to do.

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

The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.