I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

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

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Money ain't everything.

I always think of myself as a working girl.

I just don't have time to get old!

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

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.

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

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.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

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

I've never been a feminist.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

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 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 love story songs because I've always loved books.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.