To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.