Philanthropist Quotes

“I love bald men. Just because you've lost your fuzz don't mean you ain't a peach.”

“I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.”

“When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.”

“Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world.”

“There's nothing like white trash at the White House.”

“Life is a song to me.”

“I think that I know the value of a dollar.”

“People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.”

“People will use you as long as you let them.”

“I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.”

“Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.”

“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.”

“You can't really make people be any different than what they are.”

“Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.”

“I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.”

“You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!”

“I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.”

“Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.”

“Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.”

“I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.”

“My husband says I look like a Q-tip.”

“My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.”

“I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep.”

“I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.”

“My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.”