Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Trisha Yearwood - Page 2

If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

Sometimes, life just gets in the way, and you have to forgive yourself for putting on a few pounds.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

I grew up in Georgia, so I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers.

I've patterned myself after my musical heroes.

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 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'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.

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.

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.

After 'Real Live Woman,' I wasn't sure I'd ever want to make another record.

I gotta say, I'm a huge Chris Stapleton fan.

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 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.

You find what makes you happy, and it's usually being with the person you want to be with.

I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.

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!

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!

I did Scarsdale. I did Weight Watchers. I did Atkins.

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.

Martha Stewart was the one who really did show everybody that you can do everything.

I'm just trying to be the next Trisha Yearwood.

I have not heard a Martha Stewart album yet. But, you know, it could happen.

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.

I keep in touch with these people who knew me long before I got a record deal.

You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.

If you record a song that you love, then you're going to win.

The kitchen is the heart of our home.

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've been blessed to live a lot of dreams.

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.

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've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan and I'm still not.

I always want to sing, but I don't always want to be trying to have #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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The new ones are exciting because they're fresh. But if it's not that, if the story is not what you get into, maybe it's the crowd response. You hit the first chords of 'She's In Love With The Boy' and 20,000 people start to scream, you're pretty motivated. You get what you need. And it's a great story. It works.

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

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.

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.

'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.