I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time

Ralph Waldo Emerson, (on meeting

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

Sean Lennon

You can say a lot of things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers.

John Green

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Larry David

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

Victor Hugo

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

Life is unfair.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

Thomas Hardy

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

C.S. Lewis

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

Debra Winger

Your overnight success story is always a result of everything you have done in your life until that moment.

Bel Pesce