Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

I believe you have to live the songs.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

My morals are important to me.

Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Commitment is taking the first step, even if it means falling the rest of the way down.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.