I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

Time is the real emperor and there is no space for any pride since time flies and blows away anything.

I loved you when I left you.

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.

My day shall be filled to overflowing, yet shall I not haste the day; nor shall I waste the day.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.