I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.

When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it.

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.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.