Shania Twain Quotations

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.

I love the role that men play in our lives.

In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.

Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.

I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!

It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

You don't want to be outside during blackfly season.

There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.

It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.

So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.

The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.

It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

You can't just turn love on and off.

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.

I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

Writing is very much a playground; an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

You've got a way with me. Somehow you got me to believe in everything that I could be. I've gotta say, you've really got a way. You've got a way it seems. You gave me faith to find my dreams. You'll never know just what that means. Can't you see, you've got a way with me.

I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There’s been so many different looks, and so many types of songs that have become iconic, so it was just kind of fun to look back on everything

I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected to happen in order for us to realize that everything was expected. It's our relation to those things that we are able to decide how we feel and the level of intensity of those feelings. Such is relativity

Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.

When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.

Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

You gave me faith to find my dreams, you'll never know just what that means.

Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

You learn to accept your own reality

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind

Don't freak out until you know the facts.

When I first saw you, I saw love. from You're Still The One

If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.

Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough.

And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget

I'll always be there I'd give anything and everything And I will always care Through weekness and strength Happiness and sorrow For better or for worse I will love you With every beat of my heart.

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.

Suffering does not discriminate.

You want me to describe Elvis, WOW.

My father was a beautiful man.

You're still the one I run to, the one that I belong to, you're still the one I want for life.