I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.