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"I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person."
"Everything is nothing when you got no one."
"Everybody has a purpose."
"I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am."
"When I get down, I don't waller around for long."
"I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that."
"I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again."
"Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look."
"There are some loony people in this world!"
"I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder."
"You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own."
"I will never retire unless I have to."
"I don't keep up with a lot of trends. I've never been a fashion horse. I'm so busy writing my songs, trying to maintain my business, and all the new things that come along. I stay working all the time."
"Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast."
"My husband says I look like a Q-tip."
"All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right."
"Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate."
"Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods."
"I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it."
"When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it."