Ma'am, I'm not tryin' to be sexy. Ah didn't have any clear idea of trying to sell sex. It's just my way of expressin' how I feel when I move around. It's all leg movement. I don't do nothin' with my body.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.