"After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again."

"Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more."

"I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'"

"I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound."

"I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame."

"I think that I'm perfect."

"If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not."

"I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person."

"I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith."

"I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'"