If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

If you can't do it with feeling - don't.

Oh, I just sing like I hurt inside.

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

According to Google statistics, people search the word "money" four times as often as the word "goal". This creates a word: "frustration".

I believe I was extremely greedy.

I'm always smiling and happy.

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing of St Aggie's charity. - The owls of St. Aegolius

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

I've never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.