I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.

Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.