My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

The best part is seeing my kids grow and become individuals, and the fact that they're happy and well-adjusted.

It's hard to say no to your kid. It's hard for them to stomp off and not be happy with you for an hour.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

I am a mix of both old classic romance and modern. I think it is up to what suits the two people in love best!

Love fills and empties simultaneously. It makes us reach out to God, ready to be pruned, recklessly desiring whatever the cost. It soothes the aching heart and then makes it thirst for more.

I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.