You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.