It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.

The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are

Never settle for the path of least resistance

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.