I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

Good music is good music.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.