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.

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.

Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Paradise is a state of mind.