You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

Painting is another form of thinking.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

The more they made noise, the more calm I became.

There is a horse here-the furthest north of any horse, and he eats fish and travels on snowshoes.