Hillary Scott Quotes

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

It's been 32 years of learning to communicate. We have had ups and downs.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

The issue you have with two competitive guys being brought up the same way is that you don't have one person who goes out of his way to make a relationship.

You have to know how to co-operate with other people if you want to stay alive and raise children. And to do that, you need to know something about them. You need to know who loves whom, who hates whom, who is sleeping with whom. Who is honest, who is a cheat.

Dani's family are great, and I'm really lucky to have them as in-laws. But it's definitely not all plain sailing. They are such big characters who aren't scared to speak their mind, and we have different points of view at times, so we have to work through that.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.

I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.