I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

Don't make all of your sadness to be a miserable tragedy, Just forget it with your conscious heart and clear mind.

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.

When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.

The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened.

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Gain or loss, what is worse?

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.