Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.
— Shania Twain
It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
I like being at home and cooking.
I don't take any day for granted anymore.
I really can't imagine not singing again.
When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.
I love the role that men play in our lives.
I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.
You learn to accept your own reality.
I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.
Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.
My father was a beautiful man.
I'm like everybody else.
I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!
I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.
I've been performing my whole life.
I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.
It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.
For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.
Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.
You can't just turn love on and off.
Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.
In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.
I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.
Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.
Suffering does not discriminate.
I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.
I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.
I enjoy sports in person.
Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.
Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.
I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.
I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon.
I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.
It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.
I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.
I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.
I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.
If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.
I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.
Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.
My life revolves around my child's routine.
I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.
My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.
