The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

These boots were made for walking, that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you.

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.