I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.

You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else.

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