Tanya Tucker Quotes

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way.

At times when I didn't have records out, the press has really kept me out there. My bad reputation has done wonderful things for me!

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

Everybody has problems.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose from days gone by?

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

I have always been the life of the party. When I got to the point where I wasn't anymore, I knew something was wrong. I didn't know what it was. Once you figure it out, you can start to fix the problem. It's a day-to-day struggle.

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Dont you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

My dad was always my manager as far as I was concerned, even when I had another manager. At times he let me go with someone else who he thought could take me to another level when he couldn't, and he was right. But they were in it for another reason. He was in it because he wanted to see me succeed no matter what, and he made decisions based on being a dad as opposed to a manager.