I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.

I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.

What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.

If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score.

'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.

Every lesson man, every, every relationship, every experience is a blessing. You learn from it, whether good or bad.

I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.

Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players.

If you're wondering where the Lord is, At this very hour, I tell you he's alive and well, With resurrection power!..

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

Don't chase accomplishments , people or positions to find your worth. You're already loved as you are by the Father.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

I'm so lazy. I'm on the road all the time working, so when I'm at home, my perfect date is just laying on the couch!

Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics.

"Rock on, my mellow!" "B-boys, b-girls, are you ready?" "This is the joint!" "To the beat, y'all!" "You don't stop!"

We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?

I'm just very self-conscious about the way I look. I really am embarrassed of it, because I wish I wasn't like that.

A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

The people that you think are supposed to be there for you and be happy for you - instead they want to tear you down.

Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.

Being on stage and on a motorcycle are two of the only places I feel comfortable and free. Those are my happy places.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.

When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.

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