“Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.”
“I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.”
“I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.”
“I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, ‘Dang, she looks good for her age!’”
“I’m a singer, a writer and an actress – when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.”
“There’s a scripture that says, ‘A merry heart doeth good like medicine.’ I think that’s true, too.”
“They say somebody’s ‘street smart.’ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.”
“When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.”