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

"Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be."

"If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen"

"Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer."

"I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off."

"My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record."

"I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again."

"...Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by ..."