"I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion."
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"I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'"
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"I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva."
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"I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song."
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"I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there."
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"We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life."
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"You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play."
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"Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out."
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"I have just one tube of lipstick, but it's as big as a can of hairspray."
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"I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing."
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"I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite."
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"I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art."
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"Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of."
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"That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother."
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"One is only poor, only if they choose to be."
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"Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake."
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"Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong."
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"I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly."
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"I don't want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks."
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"When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'"
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