I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.

I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.

In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.