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

I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

I embrace everybody for who and what they are.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.