I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

I can't see going onstage wearing a long-sleeve shirt in the dead of summer. I work out hard during the day with a trainer who monitors everything I put in my mouth when I'm on tour. When I first got a record deal, you can tell by my early album covers that working out wasn't that much a part of my life.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!

On the road, in my bunk, I sleep better than I do anywhere else in the world.

Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back