Trisha Yearwood

You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

The first award I ever won was for Best New Artist from the ACMs, so they always will hold a special place in my heart.

I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back.

I don't interest myself that much.

I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a 'New York Times' bestseller.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

You find what makes you happy, and it's usually being with the person you want to be with.

If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.

I never dreamed that they would ask me to do a TV show. I'm the most surprised person of all.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

And one of the reasons that I wrote the cook books was so that I could be at home more than being on the road.