I had lots of breaks.

I’ve got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody’s looking.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

Besides, I’m a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

I think it’s a wonderful time for a woman.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

I think they want to keep it separate, but I’ve never been a crossover artist for some reason.

For no. 1, it’s great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it’s great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just – it was just like we were all meant to be there together.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves – and maybe a smile.

Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.

At this time when I turn 50, because so there’s many of my friends and family who didn’t get to see 50-years-old, and so, I’m celebrating for them too.

To me, there’s two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

I think it’s the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I’m not ashamed of that by any means.

I had lots of breaks.

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We’re all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn’t like. And what they had an idea for, we didn’t like. So, we went home.

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It’s like listening to a song – I mean, a story. If you’re going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don’t want to make them up.

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I’m going to get Jackie Ward to record.

So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It’s a lot of fun.

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they’re going to come see you, and if they don’t, and if you’re kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won’t come see you.

I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond’s wife, his widow. I’ve seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It’s hard for them to come see the show. It’s still hard.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn’t mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn’t know about why it happened.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.