"What is difficult is to keep the sweet voice with an aggressive message."

“When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.”

“The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.”

“I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.”

“My career is an open book, but my life is not”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.”

“I will never close the door that has not been opened.”

“In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.”