So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

I embrace everybody for who and what they are.

I love Velveeta cheese.

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

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