Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil.

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

Silent customers can be deadly. Encourage them to complain.

Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

If you reach the people nobody wants, God will give you the people everybody wants.