Quotes from Sara Evans

When you're an unsigned artist, you have to do cover tunes, especially in bars.

I had a great, long run with Sony Records, and had great relationships and lots of success.

Like all working mothers, I have guilt. Because I have to leave for work, I feel guilty about leaving for anything else.

My mom told me that when the car struck me, I landed 80 feet off the road. When they found me, I was curled up in a ball with my left leg mangled and twisted and almost severed in two. They all thought I was dead.

I've had four near-death experiences - very, very near death experiences, and a few of them I've never spoken about publicly.

I always compare farming to being in the music industry, especially being an artist because you never know what the market's going to bring you.

I was so intimidated being on 'Nashville,' and acting is so much harder than it seems. But I'm always open to any opportunity that someone brings me.

My best bet is to make the most awesome-sounding music that I can possibly make and pour everything that I have into that and hope and pray that it stands on its own.

I believe for America to stay strong there is nothing more important than for the family to stay together.

I want to be nominated for Grammys.

My way of doing things is that I am going to go for it, and if it's going to be a disaster, I will pray that God will have a way of stopping it.

I live with a calendar strapped to my butt. Seriously, I never go anywhere without my calendar, because I have to make sure I don't miss anything.

I've probably been the hardest on my dad. I was the oldest girl; I was 12 when they divorced. So from birth until 12, I had him, and I was the center of his attention. So that just all completely changed and went away when they divorced.

I like Valentine's Day for the kids. You know, they take their valentines to school and I like to see what they come home with.

One of the main reasons I come out so strongly for conservative values is not only because of my religious beliefs, but because it scares me to think how much divorce there is in America today, how many babies are aborted, how many broken families there are.

I have a great team in Nashville that works so hard to organize my life and stay way ahead of the game. We're just really open and have a lot of communication and dialogue about making it our goal to keep me home as much as possible - as little time away from the kids as possible.

First of all, my husband is amazing, and he is an incredible father and he's very organized.

I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood.

I'll tell anyone anything about my life, and that is my biggest goal is to always be authentic - in my music, in my artwork, in everything I do. It has to be who I really am.

I'm completely against divorce.

I come from a divorced family, so I know what it can do.

It's something that you have to teach your children from an early age: to work hard for what they want.

I'm a real stickler for a great lyric, or what I think is a great lyric. It's almost impossible for me to sing a song I don't love. My thing is: If it's a great lyric, you can do anything with the song.

I can't imagine any greater fear Than waking up without you here And though the sun would still shine on My whole world would all be gone