You can't really make people be any different than what they are.

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'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

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.