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"But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love."
"It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal."
"For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music."
"I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life"
"Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning."
"I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye."
"The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing."
"People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing."
"You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love."
"I'm going to live what I believe"
"I need music like I need water."
"That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian."
"Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage."
"If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see."
"Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of."
"To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life."
"I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that."
"The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music."
"Heaven plants a special seed, and we must have faith."