"Being in the public eye, there are people that are going to want to hurt you, y'know. They've got motives and this is happenning to me right now and it is something that I am taking quite personally." - Shania 1998. "I don't like drugs. I don't like alcohol. I like clean living people around me." - Shania on choosing her band. "We live in a very remote area, we live out in the wilderness, we live out on the lake. We've got dogs and horses. Real things that I like to go back to, y'know, because my dogs don't care where I am on the charts." (laughs) - Shania 1995. "There's no way that I would go nude in a front. I don't think under any circumstances!" - Shania on Nudity. "They really had a strong and obvious respect for what I had accomplished to that point, as opposed to saying,'I know how I can turn your career around for you'. They didn't want to reinvent my career." - Shania on her management team Jon Landau - IN COUNTRY CANADA 1997. "I love being in front of a live audience where I can control things. What I'm least comfortable with is the studio or anything contrived. 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." - MACLEANS March 1998. "It was very hard on my native family, I'm a registered band member, I've been part of their community since I was a little child. It's very hurtful to know there are people who want to unravel all that." - Shania on tabloid gossip about her Native heritage. "It was never my dream to be a star. That was my parents dream. I guess they prayed real hard." - MACLEANS 1998 "I would love to have his life, to do the music and not have to be famous. I'm more private than people realize. I'm not easy to get to know. My husband's the only one who really knows me. To get through the kind of life I've been through, you have to be strong, and it's wonderful when you find the right person who can share everything about you." - Shania on Mutt and being famous. "My perfect day would start with breakfast out on the terrace, looking at the Alps. I'd wrap a duvet round myself, lounge around, then put on a soup or stew. Then I'd spend time with my horses. I'd come home, have a nice dinner and then Mutt and I would go watch a movie." - Shania on her perfect day. "My husband calls me Woody. When I met him, he thought I looked like Woody Woodpecker [because of her current haircut]. My family call me Leen or Leeny, except for my grandmother who calls me Shania." - Shania 2000. "I've always been so intense. I have to learn how to chill out. My husband is great at that. I love to cook, so when I'm home that helps me to relax." - Shania on chillin' "I was always a communicative performer, so I've just taken that on to a bigger stage. I don't like being seperated from the audience. I really enjoy the communication I have going on." - On performing "It isn't revealing at all. In fact, it's even less revealing than if I was in a bathing suit top. There's zero cleavage. There's absolutely nothing showing." - On the famous Rolling Stone Cover shot. "I start every day with a fruit and tofu shake. I always have liked soybeans, black beans, or chickpeas for lunch or dinner - and I love pasta. There are just so many ways to make pasta. And the Italians gave us so many wonderful sauces - your basic tomato, basil, olive oil, garlic." - Shania on what she likes to eat while on tour. "To be honest, I'm pretty exhausted, I soak in a hot bath and then go to bed. I'm not one of those people who stays up till four in the morning eating pizza and drinking beer." - Shania's life on the road. "I started at such a young age that I really feel old. I feel older than I am because I've lived such a full life already. I keep saying 'Oh, I'm so tired' " - Not superhuman after all! "It's kind of fun, but I'm not sure what the definition of a diva is anymore. It could be an insult I suppose, but I think it's kind of fun." - On being called a Diva. "I met Mutt at fan fair, Mutt is a big fan of country music. When I first went to his house to write with him, he had the biggest country music collection I'd ever seen." - On Mutt's passion for country. "I'm very independent. I've always been very bold, straightforward and black 'n' white about things in everyday life. I like to simplify things, get to the facts. Thats always been the way I've been and nothing has ever been able to distract me - it's almost an insensitive quality. When your raised poor, and you've got lots of responsibilites as a child, you just end up that way, and it actually can be a bitter thing, but when my parents died, it just made me realize how valuable life is, how really fragile life is." - Shania on a part of her personality. "Women are strong, and women admire beauty just as much as men do. I'll tell you one thing, men are more intimidated by me than the women. I'm not kidding." - On women. "If you saw me the way I normally am, you wouldn't think I was so beautiful - I don't know what you would think." - Shania on her looks. "Sometimes we would literally go two or three days at a time where we'd sit by the fire and start writing in the morning, go for a walk later in the afternoon, go for a horseback ride or eat, then write, go to bed really late, get up early in the morning and start all over again." - On writing Come On Over. "We were in Italy two years ago, and we were at a soccer game. My husband loves sports. I don't know the game that well, so my mind drifted and I started writing." - How 'From This Moment On' came about. "I'm as excited as anyone when I get up there and win, but to be honest with you, I don't sit there waiting. I learned a long time ago that you just end up being very disappointed. I think it can make you very bitter if you just put too much weight in that. I don't want to be bitter. I don't even want to compete on that level, so I take it very lightly, actually." - Shania on winning awards + my Shania concert + my personal page + FAQ about the site + acknowledgements + SC in the paper + contact me