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

"I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that."

"I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids."

"Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."

"My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order."

"Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills."

"I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out."

"People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them."

"It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen."

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

"I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it."

"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

"I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park."

"I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out."