We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.

I do wear wigs. ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.

A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.

One is only poor, only if they choose to be.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.