I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol. '
I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.
I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.
Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.
A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.
You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.
The doctor said, 'He can't last a week. ' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month. ' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it. ' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that. ' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits. ' And here I am, a new teenager.
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.