Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.
I’m just a person; I like to experience whatever the feeling is and whatever I’m going through.
Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.
I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.
My nails are my rhythm section when I’m writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they’re owed, but I don’t expect them to be paid more than they earn.
If there’s something you know and there’s something you feel, but you can’t quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don’t have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.
If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.
It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I’m always looking for things to be better.
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!
It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.
Life is a song to me.
Money ain’t everything.
My fat never made me less money.
My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.
I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.