I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.