I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

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

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.

When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he is looking. If he is looking at my eyes, he is looking for intelligence. If he is looking at my mouth, he is looking for wisdom. But if he is looking anywhere else except my chest he's looking for another man.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.