Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.

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'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!