After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.