Everyone gets criticized.

Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever.

I have a great time touring.

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!

Everyone gets criticized.

I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life.

What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.

I don't believe it's productive to go around and badmouth anyone that I work with, because at the end of the day, we all have to sit in front of each other and agree or disagree.

I don't like the word 'regret.'

I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.

I had some wonderful times in my 20s, but your 20s are hard.

I never, ever in my heart want to hurt anyone.

I was told when I was little I couldn't have an opinion because you want everyone to buy your record and like you.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

I've been in therapy my whole life.

Online bullying has to stop.

People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

Twitter can be great and very bad.

You can't break what's broken already.

What no woman or man needs is anyone telling them they are too fat or too skinny. That just adds to the many stereotypes out there about a persons weight.

Like mercy from heaven's gate, there's a freedom in your arms that carries me through. I need you.

The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.

A good act does not wash out the bad nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

My favorite meal is I'll make like a three-bean soup and I freeze half of it. But I'm also a big fan of meat alternatives, so I can still have my chicken and mashed potatoes and green beans, but I just have the chicken from a plant-based thing.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

I love running and I will always run.

I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

What's really good is African drum music.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so bad.

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.