I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

I believe you have to live the songs.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

Tears are a wonderful thing. They cleanse the eyes and the heart. Thanks to our tears we can better see the world and our friends.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.

I have no urge to go back to college.

Once you start making money you have to put things into perspective.

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.