Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.

I love having my hair and makeup done for red carpets, but to have that done every day would be exhausting.

I'm Southern. I like big hair and eyeliner. I want my wedding day to be me, so I'll probably be rocking some big hair and some eyeliner.

Mama, you taught me to do the right things So now you have to let your baby fly You've given me everything that I will need To make it through this crazy thing called life.

You work side is for everybody. When you're at home, you're not wearing heels and your work attire.

'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby.

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.

Music is my life, is my strong point, that's my love.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned.

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

I know people are really interested in everything that the celebrities are doing, even if you don't consider yourself a celebrity. What always would drive me crazy is -- I took ethics classes in college -- and it always amazes me how there would blatantly be something that I did not say in quotation marks. If you're putting quotation marks around it, it better be exactly what that person said.

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home.

I love chocolate, and I love to shop -- just give me a good boutique. I like mall scenarios, too, because there's more right there at hand. I think Nashville could use some better shopping!

I don't know why terrible things happen to us sometimes.  But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.