I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

I'm just a simple country girl.

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.