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You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.


And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.


You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.


You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.


Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.


So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you.


It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.


When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.


But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.


A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.


I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.


When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.


I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.


I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.


I love to sing with different people.


I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.


Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.


Being sexy is kind of funny to me. You know, I can get kind of spunky or I can get tough, you know, that kind of tough, sexy look. But sexy? No, I don't think so.


My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.


I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.