Trisha Yearwood quotes:

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.

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

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.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun...

For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

What's meant to be will always find a way

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

I'm like it's - it's like taking out whatever you have in your fridge and putting it in a bowl and eating it.

I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan.

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.

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.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens.

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.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

Know that God has a plan for your life. Turn your life over to him every day. Stop looking outside yourself for validation and approval-you're letting other people define your happiness. Instead of trying so hard to manipulate life, take care of yourself on the inside. Then all those other attributes you're so desperately seeking will find you eventually."

I always want to sing, but I don't always want to be trying to have No. 1 records. I don't think you can do it forever. I don't know what the time span of that is going to be. I want to sing because I want to sing.

I don't need to be 19 years old or starve myself for some weight or turn men's heads down that road. And thank God I finally know that.

I don't interest myself that much.

I like a gooey cookie.

I want to sing because I want to sing.

It's for balance, if you want to do that. But the truth is that we all know how we're supposed to eat. And so if you have fried chicken and mashed potatoes and white gravy, then the next day you have, like a grape and you're totally evened out and you're good.

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.

People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The new ones are exciting because they're fresh. But if it's not that, if the story is not what you get into, maybe it's the crowd response. You hit the first chords of 'She's In Love With The Boy' and 20,000 people start to scream, you're pretty motivated. You get what you need. And it's a great story. It works.

Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.

There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.

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.

You know, really - actually, it's funny because it's a sore spot with me because I have all these recipes that, you know, you have to measure things out and put them in. And then you bake it and it becomes this thing. And it's not a recipe.