Musician

I don't think any of us ever trusted Nashville. When you're in that town you know everybody is talking about everybody else. Everybody is wishing for the other guy to fail.

I'm amazed when I hear my daughters with their friends. They'll just talk openly about, 'Yeah, he used to be a girl and now he's a boy.' It gives me a lot of hope... It's so matters of fact. It's like they're saying blue and yellow make green. I love that.

Nothing is as important as standing up for what you believe in.

I think our core fans have stayed true to us, and I want to thank them for staying with us.

The Court Yard Hounds aren't a threat to the Dixie Chicks.

I couldn't imagine that my career could have contributed to the demise of my marriage, but I do think neither of us realized that when you spend 60 to 70 days a year face-to-face, no marriage is going to survive. No relationship is going to survive.

We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.

We were the ones that from the beginning said that 'Wide Open Spaces' was a hit. 'This is a hit, people are going to relate to it.'

I now recognize that having a great company behind you can actually impact your motivation to be more creative.

So many young kids are fickle when it comes to music. There comes a time when you're not cool again.

Costumes are great. That kind of effort tells the audience that the performer has taken the time to be the total package.

It's such a strong drive for women, knowing you were meant to be a mom. We would have gone into debt, done whatever, exhausted all the options, to get there. But a lot of women have to give up on that dream because they can't afford it.

We've never minded working hard.

Especially after the Chicks' success, it's hard to think of starting over.

We don't mind if people think we've come from nowhere. Because once they've become fans, they'll delve deeper in and will be surprised to find we've been around awhile and that we've had a lot of experience doing this.

If you're making $10 an hour and you're doing your job and you're doing it well and your check is consistently $8.75 an hour, who wouldn't stand up for themselves?

I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith.

When you get a record deal, you got to be pretty headstrong, know your direction.

When we were unknown, you don't get a lot of bad feedback. Now, we get people bad-mouthing us all the time, but it's all part of the game.

Fifteen-year-old LeAnn Rimes singing about commitment? You want to go, 'Yeah, right.'