With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.