People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.

Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'

Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.