I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

I'm like it's - it's like taking out whatever you have in your fridge and putting it in a bowl and eating it.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

It's for balance, if you want to do that. But the truth is that we all know how we're supposed to eat. And so if you have fried chicken and mashed potatoes and white gravy, then the next day you have, like a grape and you're totally evened out and you're good.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.