Me Quotes
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There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
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The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
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I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
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People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
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A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
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I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
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If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
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I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
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One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
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Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.
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It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
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People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.
