Kellie Pickler Quotes

I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

It gets easier as you get older because life deals its particular hand, and our experiences get deeper, richer, more profound. When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.

I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.

I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.

My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

My 20s were a completely and utterly different time in my life.

I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.

You have to try things in life.

As for growing up on TV, I have just let things happen.

It is very different hosting and judging a show like 'Love School'; it was unlike acting in a movie or series or being part of a reality show. But I keep telling myself that I have just one life, and I have to make the most of it.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

You always are changed when you come back from summer camp.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

A lot of people talk about life. Some love it. Some disparage it. And a few realize that life can be what you make it because they have learned from past experiences. Lessons learned from these experiences have often contributed greatly toward seeing the possibilities in what some people call "the game of life." When we've "been there" and "done that," we can have as good of an idea of what we don't want as what we do want. Experience is certainly an excellent teacher!

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

I was 16-years-old when I appeared on 'American Idol,' and the show was my boot camp. It was a crazy, stressful at times, experience.