Reba McEntire

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

You don’t waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

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.

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

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.

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

I’ve deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

I’m like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I’m not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I’m not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It’s just the condition I’m aware of.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?

I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.

I found myself a sophisticated, educated American. He’s not an actor. He’s traveled the world. He knows where Europe is, unlike a lot of Americans. He’s very cultured, but he’s all man.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

I don’t want to be somebody else.

I used to be better looking than this.

It may become Bob as time goes on. My dad was a Bob and his father was a Bob. That seems to be the sort of cheery thing that you do to octogenarians, but not yet, no.

No person who does not reside in Canada shall induce electors to vote for or refrain from voting for a particular candidate. And apparently anyone found guilty of doing that could be fined up to $5,000, given a six-month jail term, or both. That is a ridiculous law and I guess what you’re saying, Canada, is do you wanna dance?.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don’t know it yet.

There’s nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that’s a fact.

[On drum machines] Fantastic to write with. They have their place, they’re terribly useful to the musician, but they’re just another tool. They never will replace a good drummer. A lot of the bands that use them, I call them typewriter bands because basically they program the sample sounds with no real dynamics, and that dynamics is very important. And the records come out sounding very flat and very 2-dimensional whereas something with real dynamics and a good drummer can add another dimension – depth – to the band and that’s why bands that play together when they’re actually making the record will always sound better.

I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.

I’m just a public-schoolboy. I’ve got a degree. I’m from a middle-class family in Devon. I’ve got no story.