If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!
I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.
They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words
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.
If I can hold God’s attention, I can hold the world’s..
A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?
The doc swore she came out screamin’ in the key of E.
Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.
It’s a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I’d be a drag queen.
People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.
I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb . . . and I also know that I’m not blonde.
I look just like the girl next door … if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
I’m not going to limit myself just because some people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.
If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.
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.
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 just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.
If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.
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’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.
They say somebody’s ‘street smart.’ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.
I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.
My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.
I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn’t even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
If you like good ol’ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.
When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.
I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
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.
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
My favorite movies of all times is ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ and I love ‘Gone With the Wind.’ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.
I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.
I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ’em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.
Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.
I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it’s a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.
I love traveling all over the world but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.
I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.