I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

Being a star just means that you just find your own special place and that you shine where you are. To me that's what being a star means.

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.