Trisha Yearwood Quotes

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

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

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

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

I’m like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back.

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.

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 don’t interest myself that much.

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.

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 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.

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.

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’ve patterned myself after my musical heroes.

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.

I’m not the singing cookbook lady.

Music is so intimate and so personal that when you can find somebody that feels the same way about it that you do, it’s magic. It can be. It really can be.

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

I don’t think you can name one diet I haven’t done.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

My mom and sister and I all cook.

I like a gooey cookie.

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.

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

You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.

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

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.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

I’m 47, You learn life is short and it’s not worth doing something if you don’t enjoy it.

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 hope I never have to pick between all these things I get to do.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

I really like Miranda Lambert. She has a great voice.

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 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.

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.

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

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

When people compliment my cooking, it’s like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it’s great to be known for something else.

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.

I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.

The kitchen is the heart of our home.

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

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.

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

As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

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

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

It’s always a balance, and sometimes I’m on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I’m on the bad side.

When you’re sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode – with me as the evil stepmother!

I want to sing because I want to sing.

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

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.

I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a ‘New York Times’ bestseller.

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 best thing that I bring in my live show is that it’s not scripted. It’s more of a conversation with my audience. And that’s what people like about the show – it’s very real. There are mistakes and laughter.

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 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 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.