Being a star just means that you just find your own special place and that you shine where you are. To me that's what being a star means.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.