You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.

But these days, it's hard to make it just on a beautiful voice.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

There was a time when country never used to do videos.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.

You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

Music is universal; it's healing.

When my dad died, I developed a nervous habit. He was very shy and quiet, and I was like him.

You have to be committed or you fall behind lose out.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

May Jack o lanterns burning bright Of soft and golden hue Pierce through the futures veil and show What fate now holds for you

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

I look up to Walt Disney and what he has done.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

Each woman brings her own separate, unique strengths to the family and the Church. Being a daughter of God means that if you seek it, you can find your true identity.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family.

One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty.

I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

I have never played a game in my life.

I think that God will provide opportunities and people and experiences, and everything we need to date and ultimately to find the one.

I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and it was a mask where you cut out the eye holes and put a string through the side. It makes me feel like I'm 11 years old all over again.

When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.

In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

There's nothing like the first kiss once you've been pronounced husband and wife. It's such a wonderful moment!