At times when I didn't have records out, the press has really kept me out there. My bad reputation has done wonderful things for me!

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.

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.

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.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

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

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