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

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

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

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.

I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.

There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.

Background vocals during her song "I Hope You Dance" .....'Time is a wheel in constant motion always, rolling us along. Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone.'