4"Thanks to hair and make-up, we can all be beautiful butterflies."

4"But, everyone isn't perfect, and it's good for teens to know that."

4"You deserve nothing less than a fairy tale."

4"This is what I love to do and one of the benefits is we can have our kids with us on the road."

4"I wussed out of yoga, but I can still jump around on stage."

4"Why does everybody have to be like the Backstreet Boys?"

4"I don't think a guy can go, 'I'm gonna kill you. Hee-hee-hee-hee.' You know?"

4"We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves."

4"We've always been very open and vocal and if anything's ever true... we'll be the first to say..."

4"We only have one rule and that is there are no rules, so stand up and sing as much as you want to."

4"There is no dog in the world as great as a bulldog."

4"Everyone can enjoy their celebrity for a little while."

4"Hey, we can be country and still look how we want to look."

4"Country music is our heritage, it's what we are, and what we will continue to be."

4"We've all matured emotionally and in years as well, and I think the music just reflects that this time."

4"To try to please ourselves, really, is all we're trying to do when we go (into the studio)."

4"We walk around and people say, 'There's the Dixie Girls' and I turn around and say, 'Chicks.'"

4"I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together."

4"Martie didn't want to be a chicken!"

4"Call me blonde, but I never even thought about the name being sexist. I was thinking of little baby chicks."

4"Yee f@$#*&%' haw!"

4"We always say we scare people."

4"The only thing I knew for sure was that I wasn't going to wear those cowgirl clothes."

4"'Cause you know half of the people out there have ugly feet!"

4"I have a feeling that if we're around for 20 years, there will still be things we do that scare them."

4"I thought twice about wearing this short skirt since I'd be sitting down on the floor, but you guys have already seen me naked!"

4"We don't want to be too cautious. Be yourself, that's our thing. Tell the truth... don't get wrapped up in what's politically correct."

4"I'll never write as well as Sheryl Crow or Patty Griffin; I don't have the turmoil in my life."

4"You know, two of us have been through childbirth; you can't hurt us!"

4"I am proud of my voice but I would never try to play the fiddle."

4"Being on the road is the hardest part, but it is also the most rewarding."

4"I like to have sex right when I wake up."

4"It wouldn't faze us if there weren't. We're pretty disgusting ourselves." (on respect from male fans)

4"Of course you can be a Chick at forty, but when we're forty, we'll look forty. We're not going to be wearing glitter and platforms."

4"A lot of people think Emily is the nice, shy one... she's stranger than any of us."

- "We all have plans to bring our kids on the road. Separate buses. Little families."

- "We humble ourselves every day by looking at our naked asses in the mirror."

- "I feel like I have stuff to say, I dunno if anyone's gonna wanna listen, but I'm gonna say it!"

Martie
- "Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings."

- "I don't think it is fair to try and convince your audience that you are bigger than life when you're not."

- "If you don't make fun of yourself, somebody is going to make fun of you for you."

- "Emily and I grew up with bluegrass, so we'll always sound country because we have the twang."

- "When we first came out we were drawing a really young crowd which was scary cause they're the most fickle crowd."

- "We've earned our wings."

- "Why not just put our best foot forward, which is our live show."

- "I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff."

- "I have a hidden wild side, and the older I get the more it comes out."

- "You never know if it's a Chick song."

- "I have a lot to get out and get down on paper."

- "I've felt the emptiness of a house that's not a home."

- "Our true fans won't go anywhere."

- "In our house there are instruments everywhere, and I love picking them up and just noodling around."

- "We do hope that our music can be accepted worldwide."

- "One of the best parts of a record deal is all the free meals you get taken to."

- "I spilled hot coffee on Bill Anderson and he said 'ouch' to me."

- "I have toe fungus."

- "My guy sells drugs, pharmaceutical that is."

- "It would be 100º with makeup melting down our faces, and there's one of us in each seat trying to put on our little cowgirl suits and boots. Ugh!"

- "One guy said to his girlfriend, 'Look, it's the Dallas cowboy cheerleaders'. I just wanted to shove my bow up his ass."

- "We're hoping to do things by example, not by some sort of motto of some big philosophical statement. Our music and what we do, touring and running our own company, hopefully inspires young girls to go out and do whatever they want to do."

- "The thing I like about our fans is that they are smart, they are good-looking and we can agree to disagree."

- "I can't imagine a world without music. That's like a world without ... air."

- "Natalie's got that undeniable twang that she will never be able to escape with all the speech therapy in the world."

- "For us, it's not about definitions. We don't worry about whether it's too country or too 'out there'. We just know when it's right."

- "Emily wanted us to be Puss In Boots." (about naming the band)

- "We understand that your career is always gonna have ups and downs and we're willing to go through the ups and downs to have longevity."

- "I think back to the time when we were musical wallpaper, calling the clubs we were booked in every 30 minutes to check on ticket sales."

- "We went from street corners to dance halls, from jeans and boots to tailor-made cowgirl getups with rhinestones. Finding Natalie was the best thing that ever happened to Emily and me."

- "I've always thought that if it all ended somehow tomorrow, I'd have a wonderful scrapbook to show my grandchildren. I'd be happy about what we've already accomplished."

- "If playing the music we love crosses over and gains listeners from other types of music that's great. But we're not intentionaly trying to cross over. We're country performers and we're staying country."

- "It's our ding-dong the witch is dead song." (talking about Goodbye Earl)

- "I just want you to know I can whip Natalie's ass, I've had her down on the floor of the bus, not in a fight but just when we get a little, you know ... we like to wrestle."

- "So I look the most like an old wrinkly man." (talking about how video directors thought they would put Emily and Martie's face together to play the man on the Top of the World video)

Emily
- "I did have role models, but most of them were male."

- "We're always trying to grow as musicians and singers."

- "A Dixie Chicks song has to have a spark, something that showcases our individual and collective talents."

- "I tried to get my sparkled kneepads so I can like run and slide with my banjo but they're not coming along very well."

- "Our music always reflects where we are in our lives."

- "I still feel like I'm a student of bluegrass."

- "The real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people."

- "I don't know where I'll be crashing. I think that was my line."

- "When your individual work is more represented, it makes you more proud and makes you want to work harder."

- "It's almost like a drum solo in a rock concert. You always have to have an instrumental in the set or on an album."

- "I don't have chickens!"

- "I said, 'Charlie, our son better not be called Chuck.' And he goes, 'Don't worry — I never had any problem with anybody calling me Chuck twice."

- "Let me tell you, I fall asleep on planes with my mouth open, and it certainly doesn't look very attractive."

- "I was on my way to the gym. It was incredible. I was screamin' at cars, 'That's me on the radio!'"

- "I fought the 'Man In Black' over a crab puff at a party." (talking about Johnny Cash)

- "My teeth were on the cover of The New York Times."

- "They say I have the ugliest feet in the world, I don't care if they say it ... I'm not gonna hide 'em."

- "We used to get some flak for calling ourselves chicks, but we've come full circle, and women can call themselves anything they want. I think we're symbolic of that strength, that women can do anything, call their own shots, play their own instruments ... we're breaking stereotypes."

- "We go through the good, the bad and the ugly all together."

- "Black is very slimming so the more I get, they might make my feet look smaller." (on her tattoos)

- "I don't understand why so many country acts, as they become more popular, take fewer chances - they don't want to mess with the style that got them famous. We look at each other and think, hey, we're all about messing with styles."

- "There's no formula for a Chicks song. If we like it, and we think we can put our harmonies to it, that's all we need."

- "I love seeing strong-willed women inspire little girls. I hope someday some new artist will say 'I was inspired by the Dixie Chicks."

- "We know we (the Erwin sisters) will always be playing music together, so we wanted to find someone who is just as determined and energetic as we are."

- "Kids playing instruments, that's a big thing for me. I just want them to look at Martie and see that after all those years of lessons, there is something you can do that's hip and cool and fun. It's important for fans to know we're not just microphone-holders."

- "I think that, having been on the road and being a traveling band for the ten years before we did this, we have a confidence that radio success doesn't have to be the be-all, end-all. Touring, however, makes fans for life. So three or five years down the road, if people become fickle, and the Dixie Chicks have had their day, and it's time to get off the roller coaster, I think we could still continue to tour just because of the kind of fans we've gained."

- "We played orchestra in school. We were Orch Dorks."

- "If you can't question your government then you are just mindless followers."

- "I wouldn't trade this job for the world."

The Chicks
- "It smells but we can still use it." (Chicks talking about their old RV)

- "Guys mail us their naked pictures, they're the type ... well, the type you don't want to see!" (Chicks talking about e-mail)

- "We're married ... not to each other!" -Natalie and Martie

Said about the Chicks
- "Imagine the sexual energy of Elvis Presley mixed with the night-piercing screams of Robert Plant and the musical virtuousity of Earl Scruggs ... that's the future of country music, and it's called the Dixie Chicks." - The Atlanta Journal Constitution (July 26,1999)

- "They're the most fun you can have on country radio these days, bringing a sisterly zest to their celebrations of hell-raising country gals who know how to rip out a man's heart and use it to fix a flat ..." - Rolling Stone

- "Their trump card is Natalie Maines, a tiny woman whose voice packs all the power of a rottweiller's jaws....and when sister's Emily Robison and Martie Seidel slide in their harmonies, even the sturdiest of spines should be tingling in gratitude ..." - Q Magazine

- "... the Dixie Chicks are as refreshing as a cool breeze across the fires of hell." - Vancouver Sun

- "... there hasn't been this much sheer excitement and adulation surrounding a girl band since, well, maybe forever." - Oregonian

- "... great entertainers; they're crack musicians ... they prove that women can be gorgeous and girlish without sacrificing an iota of strength or talent." - San Francisco Chronicle

- "Country with conviction in the land of Dixie ..." - Los Angeles Times

- "Chicks have taken the fiddle, banjo, dobro and juiced-up vocal harmonies and moved straight into uncharted territory ... a new female dynasty has begun ..." - Salt Lake Tribune

- "... when Natalie Maines belts her heart and lungs out on, say, "Tonight the Heartache's On Me" or "Don't Waste Your Heart", it's stone-cold, hard core honky tonk at it's best. And where else but a Dixie Chicks show can you see a fiddle break get cheers worthy of an Eddie Van Halen guitar solo?" - Rolling Stone

- "The Dixie Chicks provide a cool, three-part harmony with a spunky attitude that draws casually on plenty of influences, while keeping a sound all their own ... the Dixie Chicks have the ability to take country's already strong women into even edgier territory." - The Tennessean

- "The Dixie Chicks are on fire-and deservedly so." - Country Weekly

- "This all-girl band has paid their dues and their time on the road is apparent ... This is one band of chicks who don't intend to get carried along by their cover-girl looks. They have talent and substance to boot." - American Country

- "The Dixie Chicks have the look to win America's hearts and the talent to keep the love growing for years!" - Cashbox magazine

- "The Dixie Chicks serve up such delicious, sizzling, down-home country music, they ought to include a 'wet nap' with every album." - Playback magazine