It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

Country music has the great stories.

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.