We're human, so you're never happy with what you have.
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. . . . I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.
Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.