trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s music, the calligraphy of their roots pure poetry, rhyming earth and berth.
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.
I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and th...
To say how you would react if you were really storming the charts and had people running around after you... who's to say how any of us would deal with that.
I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuc...
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
