"I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi."
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"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."
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"Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee."
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"I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child."
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"A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs."
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"I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself."
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"I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work."
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"I think that I'm perfect."
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"Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to."
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"I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear."
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"When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording."
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"People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are... all bought and paid for."
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"I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change."
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"If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not."
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"When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you."
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"Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer."
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"I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed."
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"[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips."
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"I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside."
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"I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then."
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