I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.

Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.

'I love to cook. Very healthy eating. ...' Twain also forgoes meat, dairy, and eggs. 'Nothing,' she declares, 'that had to die.'

When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?

I think that all people that get to a certain level of their celebrity are brands. I accept that. I don't value it in any personal way. I value it as an element of my work. I'm more pragmatic in that sense. I do get very rattled if I don't get enough normalcy in my life. I like solitude. I can't even write music if I'm not isolated.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.