“Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.”

I know not every song has to be a powerful message.

Legs longer than my marriage.

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven’t in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

Guess I’m hangin’ by myself but I don’t mind.

Forced idleness evolves into beauty.

Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don’t know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn’t have a unique perspective.

I’d rather be more of the hippie country chick – as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, ‘We’re all screw-ups. We’re all in this kind of together. We’re all just figuring this out.’

A lot of what gets on the radio isn’t saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they’re told to get it.

Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop – nobody cares!

I’m really proud to be a woman representing country music.

A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

When something comes to my brain, I don’t ignore it. You never know what it’s going to turn into.

I think if you’re everyone’s cup of tea, that probably means you’re a little bit boring, or you’re not pushing yourself.

All I have in this world is a place that’s mine, a few good friends and a few good lines, a couple pairs of shoes that I love that shine and I walk in peace.

When you see me out I hope the taste in your mouth is still sweet as I wish it could be, believe me.

There was a really strong and intense bond with a lot of those early fans, some of whom became what we call lifers.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

The reality in terms of the way the music has connected globally has exceeded what any of us could’ve imagined.

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.

I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.