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" After 'Real Live Woman,' I wasn't sure I'd ever want to make another record. "
Sure
Live
Want
" 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. "
Books
Than
Home
" As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that. "
Notes
Sing
Want
" 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. "
Meet
Day
Me
" Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing. "
Southern
Thing
Peanuts
" 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. "
Relationship
Failure
Myself
" Education was a given, only because of the way I was raised. Truth be told, I thought, at 15 years old, I should go and get a record deal and drop out of school, and my parents would have had none of that. I'm grateful now that my parents were pushing me in that way, because I wasn't mature enough on so many levels to do that. "
Truth
Education
Grateful
" 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. "
Breakfast
Expert
Eat
" For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends. "
Me
Connected
Cooking
" Garth Fundis is a song guy. He is in it for the right reasons; he's about the music. He doesn't ever try to talk you into recording something that you shouldn't. He gets it. "
You
Talk
Try
" Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping stone to something bigger. "
Opportunities
You
Small
" I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model. "
Absolutely
Gorgeous
Out
" 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. "
Because
Complicated
Find
" 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. "
Time
Training
Person
" I did Scarsdale. I did Weight Watchers. I did Atkins. "
Did
Weight
" I don't interest myself that much. "
Myself
Interest
Much
" I don't sign every check anymore, but I have my checks, my balances. I like the people I work with very much, but I check on them. "
Check
Work
Sign
" I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day. "
Every Day
Time
Trying
" I don't think you can name one diet I haven't done. "
You
Done
Name
" 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. "
Home
Business
School
" If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead. "
Radio
Start
Trying
" If you believe in astrology, I'm a Virgo, so I'm very controlling; I'm very neat, and I'm very organized. "
Astrology
Organized
You
" 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. "
Paint
Go
Artist
" If you record a song that you love, then you're going to win. "
Win
You
Song
" 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. "
Famous
Doing
Long
" I get satisfaction out of making a meal for people that I love and having them enjoy it. But there's not really anything in my life that I do that's just for me that feeds my soul like music does. "
Life
Love
My Life
" 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. "
Early
Book
Pictures
" I gotta say, I'm a huge Chris Stapleton fan. "
Chris
Fan
Gotta
" I grew up in Georgia, so I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers. "
Brothers
Listening
Grew
" 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. "
Food
Time
Relationship
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