Trisha Yearwood Quotations

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

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

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I want to sing because I want to sing.

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

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

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

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.

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

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

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

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

The only place that I have to be really careful is I don't want people buying tickets to my shows thinking they are going to see Garth Brooks, because he is a stay-at-home dad. He is not coming on tour with me, and I just don't want people to be disappointed.

When you're a celebrity on your own there's a certain amount of acknowledgment. When two people who are both famous get together it becomes a bigger thing. It almost becomes bigger than the couple,

She started singing: All I could see is this face and this voice coming out, and it was unbelievable. It was a moment you hope for when you're looking for someone to work with.

Especially in the entertainment industry, because you have to focus on yourself and your career every day, it's really important to do things that remind you that it's not just about you; things that really take you back to reality.

I've said many times that he's an artist's best friend, ... He doesn't try to make you into something; he tries to get out of you what's already there.

As a musician, I have a deep respect and appreciation for the gift of hearing and the beauty that it brings to life, ... Having been on an international hearing mission trip with the Starkey Hearing Foundation, my respect and appreciation is equally great for the work it is doing to open the ears of the world's children. Through its many good works, the Starkey Hearing Foundation is not just giving the gift of hearing to those in need but the gift of life.

This is the album I have always wanted to make.

There may be one or two who think it's about them, ... but it's not. It's not about anything I've been through.

I truly think this is one of those places that, for the rest of my life, I'll say 'I played Carnegie Hall.' You know ... that's it.

That song is personal only in that it's about home, ... I really wanted to find a song about Georgia, and I love those great story songs.

If you see the footage, the complete shock on my face is so genuine.

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 like a gooey cookie.

I don't interest myself that much.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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...

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

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.