“I didn't even know any cowboys growing up. When my friends heard that ...” — Ree Drummond Quote

I didn't even know any cowboys growing up. When my friends heard that I was marrying a cattle rancher and moving to the country, they literally could not believe it. They started calling me the Pioneer Woman as a joke.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.'

When I was young, I wanted to be an actress. I had no idea what that meant, but I just thought it sounded fun.

With the exception of an occasional cocktail party with friends, my holiday entertaining mostly centers around smaller get-togethers with family.

Butter, cream, and bacon. That's such a great foundation right there.

My calling is to help people, to teach people, to share with people, until I die. I can never stop doing that. I can't, and I don't want to.

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

From a young age, I wanted to play in the NBA. Oh well... It was when I was a senior in college that I fell for film, but even then, it wasn't documentaries. It wasn't until I ended up in graduate school at Southern Illinois University that I really discovered documentaries and thought that maybe that would be my calling.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.