My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.

I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan and I'm still not.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The new ones are exciting because they're fresh. But if it's not that, if the story is not what you get into, maybe it's the crowd response. You hit the first chords of 'She's In Love With The Boy' and 20,000 people start to scream, you're pretty motivated. You get what you need. And it's a great story. It works.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.