Quotes from Sara Evans

I had my own booth at Fan Fair when I was 9 or 10 years old. I made a little record and I had a manager in Missouri, so we came up to Fan Fair to sell those records and try to get me a record deal. Clearly it wasn't meant to be at 10 years old, but my memory is that I went to use the bathroom, and I met Sylvia. I was in shock.

Being on 'Dancing with the Stars' was such a fun experience and one of the highlights of my career.

Dolly Parton is hilarious. Loretta Lynn is hilarious.

To me, being masculine means being a great guy, a kind and loving husband, and a hard worker, and being honest, taking care of your family, being a good father, and being brave.

I'm a very hard worker, and I pride myself on that, but I won't compromise my family. I won't compromise my children's happiness.

I love to never regret, or go, 'I wish I would have tried that.'

When I had hits at country radio, that's what got my career off the ground and made my career.

I absolutely love Christmas and look forward to the Holiday season all year long!

I'm such a homebody.

I grew up on a horse.

Sometimes I would have to get up before school, saddle my horse and go get cows in that had gotten out.

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.

The love that I have for my siblings and family is enormous.

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 got signed to RCA when I was so young and made seven albums with them, plus a greatest hits album.

I'm very very big on playing sports instead of working with a trainer. I've tried sort of everything and I've come to the conclusion that I need to play tennis or throw a softball or walk with friends.

People ask me for advice. And the best advice I can give aspiring singers is to know in your heart this is your calling and there's nothing else you'd rather do.

Can't Stop Lovin' You' - which is the duet with Isaac Slade - is so sexy and passionate. The passion in that song... I think people are gonna die when they hear it.

Some of the sexiest things to me in a man are confidence, authenticity, honesty, kindness and masculinity.

As a parent, it's your job to discipline your child and make him respect you, because that is essentially protecting them.

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.

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 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.

I've always thought about someday producing other artists or developing other artists.