Quotes By Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon.

Nobody's going to tell me that my dog doesn't love me. That's crazy talk.

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Sometimes a girl's gotta have some chocolate!

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.

I'd sleep in a little, work out, do laundry, run errands, buy presents for people with birthdays coming up. I like it when I don't have to be anywhere, and anything I do is my choice.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.

I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things.

I think Nashville could use some better shopping!

Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.

If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I'm going to say it.

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

It's so easy to get caught up in this weird life. This isn't normal and I'm not singing for people that live my life. I'm singing to the life I used to have. The life I want to have again.

The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.

I like to dance around the house when I'm getting ready. It gets my day going.

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Everybody knows what's going on. Even if they don't watch it they know what's happening.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

A lot of people think I don't like them just because I'm pretty quiet. But there are certain things people don't necessarily need to know. There's got to be some things for me.