I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

lots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do ... They just don't wear them all at the same time.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.