All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

Don't it make my brown eyes blue?

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.

Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.

Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

When we blindly accept an idea, a thought, or a dogma, we become blind.

I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.

you were born as an origional don't die as a copy

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.

Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

True liars never love. True lovers never lie.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

I'm not hot. I'm great.

But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse