 Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry. |
| Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not. |
| Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. |
| When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music. |
| And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. |
| I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues. |
| I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing. |
| My tastes are eclectic. |
| Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower. |
| I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me. |
| When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing. |
| In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music. |
| The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.' |
| I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. |
