When we got married - almost 10 years ago now - we made a commitment to really be together, which means we hardly ever spend a night apart. And being madly in love is important, but I think it's equally important to be in deep like! I like this guy... we talk about everything, and we laugh a lot. Life is good!
— Trisha Yearwood
One thing my mom taught me was that when you're making deviled eggs, flip the eggs over the night before. They've been sitting in the carton as they're transported, so the yolks settle on bottom. If you flip them, then the yolks aren't skewed to one side.
I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!
I'm not really a runner. It does not bring me joy. The runner's high thing - I have no idea about that! I especially hate it on a treadmill.
I gotta say, I'm a huge Chris Stapleton fan.
I'm just trying to be the next Trisha Yearwood.
You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.
If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.
I have adopted an 80/20 rule when it comes to my delicate relationship with food: 80 percent of the time, I make good choices; 20 percent of the time, I let myself splurge a little.
I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.
I grew up in Georgia, so I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers.
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.
After 'Real Live Woman,' I wasn't sure I'd ever want to make another record.
If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.
I'd been doing circuit training and Pilates for years, but I was not consistent with food. I'm not a disciplined person. I was indulging all the time.
If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll find a way to do it, no matter what. If you're doing this because you're thinking, 'Hey, this will be really cool. I'll be famous. I'll be on YouTube,' then you'll probably quit, because it's not easy to do for the long haul.
I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.
Sometimes, life just gets in the way, and you have to forgive yourself for putting on a few pounds.
The thing that people have said over and over again, especially people who don't cook, is, 'I watch your show, the food makes me hungry, and I think I can make that.' That's exciting because we've heard that a lot of people watch cooking shows but don't make the food.
The kitchen is the heart of our home.
I've been blessed to live a lot of dreams.
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
I keep in touch with these people who knew me long before I got a record deal.
Martha Stewart was the one who really did show everybody that you can do everything.
I'm as surprised as anybody. I never would have thought I'd be here talking about having a cooking show on the Food Network. It wasn't on my list of things, but it's fun, and I'm having a good time.
You find what makes you happy, and it's usually being with the person you want to be with.
The reality is that you think you're going to have all this time out here, to do all this stuff, and the truth of the matter is, you just don't. If we're on the road, and we stay in the city we're in, I'm going to try to get up in the morning and get a workout in.
What I've learned, traveling the country and doing book signings, Mama's biscuits - you know, somebody in Montana's got their version of Mama's biscuits, somebody in California's got their version - so it made me realize that we're not as regionalized as we think we are.
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.
If you record a song that you love, then you're going to win.
You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.
I get up in the morning. I usually do a radio interview early in the morning. I usually do a book signing, because I'm also a cookbook author, so I'm at some store, at a Walmart or a Williams Sonoma, for three hours, standing up, signing autographs, and taking pictures for three hours.
When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.
Potato salad is very personal: everyone makes theirs differently.
I was raised Southern, where every meal had meat on table, but I don't eat that way in life. I've been experimenting with a lot of vegetarian and vegan food.
One that I know people really like is my Crock-Pot mac and cheese. It's comfort food that's good for Super Bowl parties and easy to make.
Every health expert tells you to eat breakfast. I had the mentality, 'I'll save those calories!' But then you are starving, and you overeat.
I did Scarsdale. I did Weight Watchers. I did Atkins.
I have to say, I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan, and I'm still not.
I have not heard a Martha Stewart album yet. But, you know, it could happen.
Of course, I want to sell records, and of course I want to get played on radio, but it has to be about making the record that I'm proud of.
I think about food all the time, so making peace with eating is a daily battle for me. I won't say I've completely figured it out, but I will say that right now, I win that battle more days than I lose it, and I believe that's the key.
The first award I ever won was for Best New Artist from the ACMs, so they always will hold a special place in my heart.
I love Southern rock; it's because I grew up on it, and no matter where I am, I'll always be a Georgia girl.
I have a lot of friends who, especially in Tennessee, were looking forward to getting married who wanted to wait until it was legal in the state that they live in to get married.
We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!
I've patterned myself after my musical heroes.
I don't think you can name one diet I haven't done.
Before the show, there's about two or two and a half hours of meet and greets with radio stations, promoters, people who I need to see and thank and talk to to make sure they remember me. And then, I get - out of all that day of talking and smiling and shaking hands and getting photos, I get to sing for two hours.
Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.
