Reba McEntire

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Do I love the road? Honestly? No – but it’s how I earn my living. I also don’t have the blues, like it’s some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It’s what I do.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

Frank Sinatra and Stan Getz had been friends of mine, and I wanted to pay tribute to them.

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

[on the MTV movie awards] Ryan was whispering in my ear as we’re winning the award. He’s like, ‘You go that way, I’ll go this way, and we’ll meet in the middle. I was like, ‘What?!? You better not chicken out or I’ll kill you!’ It was fun.

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.

You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

I gossiped when I was given a chance because I wasn’t popular so the few times someone would invite you into the group to have a conversation it was usually about someone else and you just joined in because it was great to be a part of something, and that I feel bad for.

Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don’t think about until there’s a problem.

Researches reported that they developed a ‘self-healing’ plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.

Part of being a sex symbol is very flattering and it does help you get success in the business – but only to a point. You’re stuck with that moniker forever, and it does cloud people’s imagination. They just can’t see you being able to do anything else.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

I grew up watching fantastic mainstream comedies like ‘Porridge’ and ‘Rising Damp’. There are some mainstream things I love.

I think they called it ‘sucking up’ to begin with. They finally had to come up with another name.