Rise up oh heart, for there is another battle to win.

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.

Going outside is highly overrated.

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

Oh, I just sing like I hurt inside.

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

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.

If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.

It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

Reach for the sky, set goals, live life to fullest and always remember to wake up each day with a smile.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.

You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.