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" When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris. "

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" 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. "

" I look like a woman, but I think like a man. "

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

" I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work. "

" I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing. "

" I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day. "

" No, I can't do rap music! "

" I've never been a feminist. "

" Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary. "

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

" Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. "

" 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 that I'm perfect. "

" Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away. "

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

" I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song. "

" There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce. "

" If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. "

" I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it. "

" I don't kiss nobody's butt. "

" My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old. "

" I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out. "

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

" I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!' "

" I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life. "

" My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains. "

" George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world. "

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" The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue. "