Trisha Yearwood
I'm not saying I don't enjoy the days that I'm not eating chocolate cake. But I do particularly like those days when I am eating chocolate cake.
It's not about giving back if you're successful or a celebrity or how much money you have: it's about your responsibility as an adult to help others.
I was raised Southern, where every meal had meat on table, but I don't eat that way in life. I've been experimenting with a lot of vegetarian and vegan food.
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.
I want to sing because I want to sing.
I was an A student and I liked creative writing.
When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.
When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.
I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.
My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.
I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.
I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.
You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens.
I don't interest myself that much.
I like a gooey cookie.
People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.
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.
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.
For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.
Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.
Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.
Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.
I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.
I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.
I don't sign every check anymore, but I have my checks, my balances. I like the people I work with very much, but I check on them.
I get satisfaction out of making a meal for people that I love and having them enjoy it. But there's not really anything in my life that I do that's just for me that feeds my soul like music does.
I hope I never have to pick between all these things I get to do.
It's always a balance, and sometimes I'm on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I'm on the bad side.
My mom and sister and I all cook.
The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it's not scripted. It's more of a conversation with my audience. And that's what people like about the show - it's very real. There are mistakes and laughter.
I really like Miranda Lambert. She has a great voice.
I'm not the singing cookbook lady.
I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a 'New York Times' bestseller.
I never dreamed that they would ask me to do a TV show. I'm the most surprised person of all.
As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.
Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.
Education was a given, only because of the way I was raised. Truth be told, I thought, at 15 years old, I should go and get a record deal and drop out of school, and my parents would have had none of that. I'm grateful now that my parents were pushing me in that way, because I wasn't mature enough on so many levels to do that.
I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
Garth Fundis is a song guy. He is in it for the right reasons; he's about the music. He doesn't ever try to talk you into recording something that you shouldn't. He gets it.
Music is so intimate and so personal that when you can find somebody that feels the same way about it that you do, it's magic. It can be. It really can be.
You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.
Potato salad is very personal: everyone makes theirs differently.
I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.
Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.
When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.
Before the show, there's about two or two and a half hours of meet and greets with radio stations, promoters, people who I need to see and thank and talk to to make sure they remember me. And then, I get - out of all that day of talking and smiling and shaking hands and getting photos, I get to sing for two hours.
I get up in the morning. I usually do a radio interview early in the morning. I usually do a book signing, because I'm also a cookbook author, so I'm at some store, at a Walmart or a Williams Sonoma, for three hours, standing up, signing autographs, and taking pictures for three hours.
I'd been doing circuit training and Pilates for years, but I was not consistent with food. I'm not a disciplined person. I was indulging all the time.
The most important thing I want to get across is that maintaining weight loss is just hard. It takes a dedication to exercise and eating right most of the time. I'm not saying I don't enjoy the days that I'm not eating chocolate cake. But I do particularly like those days when I am eating chocolate cake.Collection: Loss