“People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.”

“I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.”

“God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.”

“I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.”

“I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.”

“My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.”

“My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.”