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" I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.' "

" It costs a lot of money to look this cheap. "

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" I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have. "

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" 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. "

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