Reba McEntire

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

Now, if it’s just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can’t make you feel good.

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

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

Easter is very important to me, it’s a second chance.

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

I picked up a guitar and found it very difficult and I sort of graduated to drums because I found them very easy – I suppose it was a case of natural aptitude. Mitch Mitchell was my role model at the time, and I still think listening to Mitch Mitchell, especially the early stuff with Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix), is just fantastic.

The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it’s not really who I am in my heart.

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning £10 a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

I pay all my own bills… I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don’t know what it is.

I’m quite obviously not the world’s most handsome man – I’m the second world’s most handsome man!

Before you talk to people in music or entertainment or video games, or even gun control, you need to talk to psychiatrists.

I was thinking about why I make movies, and I know why. Life is hard. It’s nice to go escape and have a good time at the movies. If I can give people a movie about hope, love and the future, then I’ve done my job.

I sometimes do worry that actors are people’s role models, you know. And doctors and teachers and people doing really important things just get paid nothing. And they put us on the cover of magazines. They should be our heroes. I find it all a bit dubious.

Find something that makes you happy and go for it!

Down the road, I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

What I’m doing is making sure that I have a balance, and that allows me, I think, to be a better actor and to more easily and quickly access all of the emotions on the scale. I make sure that I read a book on the weekend or read something or do my knitting or do the things that I need to do for myself, like ‘Game of Thrones.’ Get that balance.