I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.

I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.

According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start.

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.