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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.

How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?

Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.

I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.