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In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all...

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and...

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own...

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.