I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.
A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
I was always a junk food person, still am.
I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.
They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.
I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of tho...
Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.
I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!
I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you kn...