I was country when country wasn't cool.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

If we don't help each other, who will?

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

Married, but not to each other.

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

Remember, the only thing to fear is Fear, and - well, don't even fear Fear, for he's a cowardly chap at the best, who will run if you show a brave front.

What is the past but what we choose to remember?

I'm beginning to think information is our addictive madness.

distance is created by time is further than space

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

Once you get labeled, there's nothing you can do about it.

If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable...When you're the little guy that's lauded, that's heroic.