I learned a woman is never an old woman.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.