In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.