The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment.

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart.

My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

It was just a very short period of time that I had a brief marriage.

Marriage, even a happy and successful one, can be extremely stressful, but that stress is worth it if you're marrying the best person for you.