"I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future."

"In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature."

"I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are."

"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

"You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end."

"A courageous heart knows that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love."