“I actually only went to high school for six weeks. I lost sleep deciding on what I would wear the next day or who I had to impress. I was just a much more down-to-earth, relaxed person once I decided not to care what people thought of me.”
“That's not who I am.”
“[The first single from her upcoming CD is the title song] Who We Are ... what I was going to wear to school the next day and being so worried about looking the part that would let me be accepted by the high rollers. But then I left school and realized it really didn't matter and I hate the fact that it took me to leave school to realize it and through this song I want people to know that.”
“while there is definitely some country influences in my music since I used to listen to artists like Reba McEntire and Patsy Cline but I kind of went with the times and what was popular on the radio and it led me to the newer stuff but I don't think there's any chance that I'll ever get all of the country out of what I do.”
“a step in the right direction for pretty young things with big voices and ample ambition.”
“I am so excited about working with Jesse, ... I haven't met him yet, but I hear he is a really nice guy and it will be my pleasure to work with him on this tour which will bring us to New Orleans on August 9.”
“I just couldn't sing them because I couldn't relate, ... I knew that I could be performing these songs for years and years and I didn't want to sing something I couldn't relate to.”
“They did an awesome job, ... Some of the lyrics, I just couldn't believe it. Some of the lyrics have lines that are right from my diary.”
“My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ... I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.”
“I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on to more contemporary stuff like Sheryl Crow and I combined everything that I had learned from country and rock and made this CD.”
I preach a Gospel not of despair but of hope for the individual, hope for society, and hope for the world.
“We hope to continue property acquisition in this area so we can keep building a small number of homes in between the larger projects.”
“To see these people over there by the thousands by the tens of thousands, they've lost everything, they've lost all their hope they've lost all their homes.”
“I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.”
“We hope that at some point, either the housing department will build new homes or that a private person will buy the land to build a new house.”
“But they've just taken that out now so we're hoping it won't be too long before we can take her home,”
“We are continuing to learn from each match. We hope to carry these things in to our next match, which is at home on Tuesday afternoon.”
“This might have been our last home game, but we hope not. We're going to try and fight for a (state tournament game) in here.”
“I hope we can start a new life with our kids and each other. Now I can feel I'm home.”
But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.