No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.

I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).