I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

Fans are my favourite thing in the world

Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything?

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

You gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it.

I got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was so much fun for me, but the thing that I looked forward to the most was at the cast parties. After the shows they had karaoke machines set up and that's when I could sing country music.