We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.