And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
And I know there's probably a lot that aren't so educated out there, but you've got to find the right doctor and have your family close by.
At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.
By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Everybody has problems.
He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.
I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.
I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
I have been given horses, cars, all sorts of things as gifts, so I feel I am very lucky to have such great fans!
I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.
I think it would have - but it wasn't going to be no boy. I asked for a girl.
I was born in Texas but my dad found work in Arizona drilling water wells. So I was very young when I left Texas.
I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
If I have any spare time, I do enjoy riding cutting horses, or just everyday things mostly. Shopping with my kids or going to Disney World.
If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
My sister operates the fan club.
Our home is 30,000 square feet, and we have the most beautiful place in the world.
People don't believe what you're singing, then they're not going to buy the records.
That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.
The truth was he's crazy about me.
There was a lot of things I probably wouldn't do now, you know, if I had it to do over again and I'm sure he feels the same way.
There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.
We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.
When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
It's a lonely business being ballsy.
Daughter Presley Tanita (born June 1989); son Beau Grayson (born 1991, same day she won a CMA award).
At 13, scored her first charted single on Billboard magazine's country singles chart with "Delta Dawn" (1972). Was discovered by Billy Sherrill, who gave her "Delta Dawn".
Was the second country singer to have a No. 1 country single as a teen-ager with "What's Your Mama's Name" (1973); at age 19, Jean Shepard was the first in 1953.
Other No. 1 hits in her career included "Blood Red and Goin' Down" (1973); "Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)" (1974); "Lizzie and the Rainman" and "San Antonio Stroll" (1975); "Here's Some Love" (1976); "Just Another Love" (1986); "I Won't Take Less than Your Love" (1988, with Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet); "If it Don't Come Easy" and "Strong Enough to Bend" (also 1988); and "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane" (1992).
Other major hits included "The Man that Turned My Mama On" (1974); "Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You" and "You've Got Me to Hold On To" (1976); "It's a Cowboy Lovin' Night" (1977); "Texas When I Die" (1979); "Can I See You Tonight" (1981); "One Love At a Time" (1986); "Love Me Like You Used To" (1987); "My Arms Stay Open All Night" (1989); "Down to My Last Teardrop" and "(Without You) What Do I Do With Me" (1991); "Some Kind of Trouble" (1992); "It's a Little Too Late" and "Soon" (1993); and "Hangin' In" (1994).
Dated fellow country singer Glen Campbell briefly in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Older sister is LaCosta Tucker.
Daughter Layla born 1999.
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