Sara Evans
I like Valentine's Day for the kids. You know, they take their valentines to school and I like to see what they come home with.Collection: Valentines
When the child is born, go home and just have it be you and your wife and the baby. I think all the stress can happen when in-laws and relatives all try to come in and help you. The best way to learn is to come home and do it yourself.Collection: Home
I've had four near-death experiences - very, very near death experiences, and a few of them I've never spoken about publicly.
I love to never regret, or go, 'I wish I would have tried that.'
It's really important the words that we say to people - especially the ones that you love.
My advice is toughen up, work hard. Start taking responsibility for yourself. Stop being so offended.
I'm such a homebody.
I had a great, long run with Sony Records, and had great relationships and lots of success.
I think God causes things to happen sometimes to get our attention. But I also know that God loves us and cares for us and knows the details in our lives.
I've probably been the hardest on my dad. I was the oldest girl; I was 12 when they divorced. So from birth until 12, I had him, and I was the center of his attention. So that just all completely changed and went away when they divorced.
People are so entitled they want things given to them. Nothing is promised to you.
You're supposed to put the child in their own room at six weeks. I don't think your child should ever sleep with you.
I always compare farming to being in the music industry, especially being an artist because you never know what the market's going to bring you.
You never know what the weather's gonna do. And the same with music, you never know if radio's going to play your single.
We had about 400 acres, and I'm legitimately the true farm kid. We raised wheat, corn, soy beans. We hauled hay, cattle, hogs, horses.
I grew up on a horse.
I think human beings are drawn to other human beings who are beautiful or handsome. I do think that it probably helps to sway people towards liking somebody, if they're handsome or if they're fit or if they dress good. It probably shouldn't be that way but it's almost like human nature.
I definitely don't think anybody should be voting for someone just because they're cute.
My tendency has always been to lean more conservative, for sure.
First of all, my husband is amazing, and he is an incredible father and he's very organized.
I have a great team in Nashville that works so hard to organize my life and stay way ahead of the game. We're just really open and have a lot of communication and dialogue about making it our goal to keep me home as much as possible - as little time away from the kids as possible.
I was so intimidated being on 'Nashville,' and acting is so much harder than it seems. But I'm always open to any opportunity that someone brings me.
Every time I do anything with TV, I always go away going, 'That was so fun.'
I've contributed a lot to country music.
I don't feel like I deserve to have to do a guitar pull with four brand-new artists when I've sold millions of records.
If you listen to all of my records, they all have a little part of me. So there's a part of me that's very bluegrass-y, and incredibly country, because I grew up on a farm in Missouri - I grew up singing country music. I started in bluegrass - but then there's also so many other sides of me - really pop.
I want to be nominated for Grammys.
My mom, her only dream was just to be a farmer.
I write a lot about my parents, and how they met. I talk about my parents, and how they got married right out of high school and immediately started having kids.
I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood.
Growing up on a farm in the '70s and '80s was just idyllic, you know, but I look at the difference in the way that my kids have grown up and how I've really done so much and dedicated my life and my heart and soul to making their life as easy as possible, because we always want our children to have it better than we had it.
I'm totally an empath, and I'm so susceptive to being walked on and being taken for granted.
I'm too nice, way too nice. Personal relationships I am very much like that, but not professionally.
I want different songs and different artists as I listen to the radio.
I've always thought about someday producing other artists or developing other artists.
I got signed to RCA when I was so young and made seven albums with them, plus a greatest hits album.
It's important for me to be respected and to be thought of as authentic and true to myself. So even if country music won't play my music, I'm not gonna go and record a party song or a truck song just to try to get spins. I have to be authentic to myself.
I mean, that's always my goal when I put an album together, is that every single song serves a purpose.
I don't just like fillers, and I never put a filler on a record. I mean, I want every song on every album that I do to be a potential single.
Sometimes I would have to get up before school, saddle my horse and go get cows in that had gotten out.
I started in a covers band with my brothers when I was just four years old.
When you're an unsigned artist, you have to do cover tunes, especially in bars.
That's how I started out singing, was that real old-timey country.
I despise pregnancy.
Being on 'Dancing with the Stars' was such a fun experience and one of the highlights of my career.
Better Off' is a stone-cold country song.
I absolutely love Christmas and look forward to the Holiday season all year long!
When I'm listening to a song, it's the lyrics and the stories they tell that matter most to me.
It's a dream come true to surround myself with my own team and truly embrace my entrepreneurial spirit, taking complete control of my career and brand is so freeing.
I live with a calendar strapped to my butt. Seriously, I never go anywhere without my calendar, because I have to make sure I don't miss anything.