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

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.

I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.