I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

A thousand minus one is never a thousand

Love is relative to the moment.

Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil.

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!