I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.

I don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.

I wouldn't marry until I was ready to have children.

[My father] was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.