“Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.”

“I think my first album was a gift for my birthday and a Faith Hill album I loved her. ”

“I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.”

“I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.”

“The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.”

“Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.”

“I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.”

“Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.”

“I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.”

“I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.”

“We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.”