That's gotta be the one remaining constant - jeans have gotta be tight, baby.

When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.

Those sound like the three best answers I've ever heard on this show even though it's the first ever of this show!

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

"Problems are chances for us to do our best."

"The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus."

"I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it."

"The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head."

"The message was that if something is free, you should only take the best. If, on the other hand, you're forced to pay, it's best to lower the bar and not be so choosy."

"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."

"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."

"The best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them"

"...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something."

"By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made."

"I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I've worked hard at trying to look my best."

"That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended."

"The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination."