Top 66 Sara Evans Quotes

I’m totally an empath, and I’m so susceptive to being walked on and being taken for granted.

I write a lot about my parents, and how they met. I talk about my parents, and how they got married right out of high school and immediately started having kids.

My advice is toughen up, work hard. Start taking responsibility for yourself. Stop being so offended.

I’ve always thought about someday producing other artists or developing other artists.

I’ll come in from playing tennis in the morning and eat leftover grilled chicken.

With anything like that – whether it’s divorce or anything personal you read in the tabloids – you have to remember to take it with a grain of salt. Only the people that are directly involved truly know.

I’ll take 20 flights of stairs. I’m terrified of elevators.

I never wanted my private and public life to mix as much as they did when I got divorced.

I’ll tell anyone anything about my life, and that is my biggest goal is to always be authentic – in my music, in my artwork, in everything I do. It has to be who I really am.

My mom told me that when the car struck me, I landed 80 feet off the road. When they found me, I was curled up in a ball with my left leg mangled and twisted and almost severed in two. They all thought I was dead.

When I’m listening to a song, it’s the lyrics and the stories they tell that matter most to me.

I try to be on the healthy side as much as I can. For dinner I will pretty much always make a salad, no matter what I’m eating.

I’ve had four near-death experiences – very, very near death experiences, and a few of them I’ve never spoken about publicly.

I had severe PTSD and anxiety, but it was the ’80s, and I didn’t have a name for it. I don’t think my mother even thought, like, ‘Maybe I should take her to therapy.’ I thought I could handle it because I’m tough.

Like all working mothers, I have guilt. Because I have to leave for work, I feel guilty about leaving for anything else.

You’re supposed to put the child in their own room at six weeks. I don’t think your child should ever sleep with you.

You never know what the weather’s gonna do. And the same with music, you never know if radio’s going to play your single.

I despise pregnancy.

I’m very bland; I don’t waver a lot. One thing I always like to always have in my house is fresh deli turkey meat. I love to make a tortilla with turkey and cheese and mayonnaise.

When I had hits at country radio, that’s what got my career off the ground and made my career.

I come from a divorced family, so I know what it can do.

I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood.

When you’re an unsigned artist, you have to do cover tunes, especially in bars.

I don’t feel like I deserve to have to do a guitar pull with four brand-new artists when I’ve sold millions of records.

It’s really important the words that we say to people – especially the ones that you love.

My mom, her only dream was just to be a farmer.

I definitely don’t think anybody should be voting for someone just because they’re cute.

I absolutely love Christmas and look forward to the Holiday season all year long!

The love that I have for my siblings and family is enormous.

I’ve contributed a lot to country music.

I started in a covers band with my brothers when I was just four years old.

Can’t Stop Lovin’ You’ – which is the duet with Isaac Slade – is so sexy and passionate. The passion in that song… I think people are gonna die when they hear it.

I’m completely against divorce.

Brad Paisley is very funny. Who else is funny? I think Reba McEntire is very funny.

People ask me for advice. And the best advice I can give aspiring singers is to know in your heart this is your calling and there’s nothing else you’d rather do.

It’s important for me to be respected and to be thought of as authentic and true to myself. So even if country music won’t play my music, I’m not gonna go and record a party song or a truck song just to try to get spins. I have to be authentic to myself.

We always have microwavable bacon. It’s like my family’s favorite food in the world, and it’s really low calorie actually. It’s the easiest breakfast. I can make eggs and bacon really easily or a bagel with bacon.

We had about 400 acres, and I’m legitimately the true farm kid. We raised wheat, corn, soy beans. We hauled hay, cattle, hogs, horses.

I mean, that’s always my goal when I put an album together, is that every single song serves a purpose.

I’ve probably been the hardest on my dad. I was the oldest girl; I was 12 when they divorced. So from birth until 12, I had him, and I was the center of his attention. So that just all completely changed and went away when they divorced.

I want to be nominated for Grammys.

I’m too nice, way too nice. Personal relationships I am very much like that, but not professionally.

It’s a dream come true to surround myself with my own team and truly embrace my entrepreneurial spirit, taking complete control of my career and brand is so freeing.

I believe in God. I know God is real.

I believe for America to stay strong there is nothing more important than for the family to stay together.

If you think my life has been easy for one second, think again.

I feel God’s presence in my life, as a direct result of prayer. We say, ‘Why, God?’ when bad things happen to us. But I don’t know how anybody can live without faith.

I think human beings are drawn to other human beings who are beautiful or handsome. I do think that it probably helps to sway people towards liking somebody, if they’re handsome or if they’re fit or if they dress good. It probably shouldn’t be that way but it’s almost like human nature.

I want people to know that you can achieve what you want to achieve, but you have to work hard.

Better Off’ is a stone-cold country song.

First of all, my husband is amazing, and he is an incredible father and he’s very organized.

Nobody just deserves anything, nobody’s just entitled to anything. You have to go out and get it.

I had a great, long run with Sony Records, and had great relationships and lots of success.

I hope I never get to point where I’m not real, where I’m pretentious.

Sometimes I would have to get up before school, saddle my horse and go get cows in that had gotten out.

My way of doing things is that I am going to go for it, and if it’s going to be a disaster, I will pray that God will have a way of stopping it.

I have a great team in Nashville that works so hard to organize my life and stay way ahead of the game. We’re just really open and have a lot of communication and dialogue about making it our goal to keep me home as much as possible – as little time away from the kids as possible.

I like Valentine’s Day for the kids. You know, they take their valentines to school and I like to see what they come home with.

I like to work with co-writers because I think it’s really fun to bounce ideas off each other.

Dolly Parton is hilarious. Loretta Lynn is hilarious.

I try to be superwoman, and sometimes I wear myself out.

People are so entitled they want things given to them. Nothing is promised to you.

It’s so unfair on ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ because when the men celebrities are competing, all you look at is the females! So nobody really watches them. Then when you see the women stars competing, you’re expecting them to look like the females and they just can’t! It’s an unfair advantage.

It’s something that you have to teach your children from an early age: to work hard for what they want.

I don’t just like fillers, and I never put a filler on a record. I mean, I want every song on every album that I do to be a potential single.

It’s really deep with incredible lyrics. That’s why I decided to call the album ‘Words.’