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.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.