Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

A man should never give promises in bed.

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.