Find out what you are, then do it on purpose

I'm just a person; I like to experience whatever the feeling is and whatever I'm going through.

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

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.

Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.

I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.