"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or somethin…"

"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar in your shoes, and still mess up."

"I never had a mother that was really a mother. I just had a kid that was a mother. She was eighteen, I was thirteen, and she used to go out and live it up. So I had to go out and get a job. I was work…"

"I've got to be myself, and I can't be myself unless I sing what I feel."

"I'm not a lady. I'm a woman."