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" I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child. "

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" I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion. "

" I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder. "

" The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. "

" I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year. "

" 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. "

" I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on. "

" I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out. "

" Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time. "

" I always think of myself as a working girl. "

" When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life. "

" My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff. "

" I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys. "

" Find out who you are. And do it on purpose. "

" It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do. "

" I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out. "

" I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is. "

" Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume. "

" I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them. "

" If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad. "

" If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked. "

" Never leave a rhinestone unturned. "

" I've never been a feminist. "

" 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! "

" Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan. "

" My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time. "

" I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs. "

" My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen. "

" Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters. "

" There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too. "