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.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

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

Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.

I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.

Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.