The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

I gave up my childhood for a career.

The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

God has never disappointed me.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear a song and think, 'I bet I could sing that song. I'll put that in my show.'

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.

I can't imagine being on one of those shows where people have to look nice.

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

There's always a wild side to an innocent face.

For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold.

Iran is not in any sort of routine groupings. It's not an Arab country. It's not part of the Indian subcontinent. So it's in a neighborhood where it has some unique characteristics. We are a country which embraced Islam, learned Arabic, but didn't change its language or its culture... That's what keeps us unique.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.

The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

I'm going for something very raw and organic.

If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'

It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business.

I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle.

When I'm on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.