I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

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.

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