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When you think about the greats, like Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold and George Morgan, there really isn't that much of a difference between their singing and Andy Williams and Perry Como. It's just the instrumentation that was a lot different.
If I could do acoustic shows for the rest of my life, that's fine with me. They require the right venues, small theaters or little bars. You can't take an acoustic show to a big ol' country music festival. It's more intimate, like being in my living room.
As you mature as a woman, you relate to songs differently. You've experienced more things. If I had a choice to have or have not had the tough stuff happen, well, I don't wish for that for anybody, to strengthen them or make them a better person.
I think the tabloids have become utterly ridiculous. When they just write on pure speculation, that's pretty sick.
Nobody - and I don't care if I marry somebody tomorrow - nobody could take Keith Whitley's place. Nobody.
When I walk past Little Jimmy Dickens, he'll say, 'Hey Morgan!' Those are the moments you can't buy, when you're idols know your name and they mess with you and play jokes on you.
My dad and mom took us to Canada. I loved it - the cool clean air, the green mountains and the Canadian accents. That trip is one of my favorite childhood memories as a family.
My worst vacation ever was when we went to Cancun with the kids! It was during hurricane season. We had to make alternate plans to head home early, cutting our Cancun vacation short. We ended up in Texas at a water park for a whole week! Not exactly what we had planned.
I think when tragedies happen a lot of people go to therapy, psychiatrists, whatever, because they need to have someone to talk to. There's thousands of people a night that I get to talk to, by way of my music.
I didn't want to go out on dates on Friday and Saturday night, because I wanted to go to the Opry with my dad. I learned a lot being in the heart of the music business and made some of my best friends there.
I try to find songs that say something about what I feel, songs that deal with the things people feel in their lives.
You just have to kind of roll with the punches and say, 'Think what you want to think. I know who I am.'
I had a lot of higher-up people tell me, 'You need to act such-and-such a way and go out to this club and that club and be seen with these certain people.'
During the '80s, Nashville didn't believe women were songwriters and performers. It was an unfortunate thing, because I love writing songs.
I heard 'Angel' because my children are huge Sarah McLachlan fans. When I heard it for the first time I just cried my eyes out.
A lot of times you idolize somebody from a distance and you get to meet them and you think, 'Eyuck. I wish I had never met you people.'
I'm the biggest hypochondriac you've ever seen in your life. When I get real stressed out, every little ache and pain I have is something major. If I've got a headache, it's a brain tumor; if I've got a chest pain, it's a heart attack.
Even though a lot of people have recorded 'Unchained Melody' - Elvis Presley, Roy Hamilton, Frank Sinatra, LeAnn Rimes, Diana Ross and the Supremes come to mind - I don't think I'd like to cut it in the studio. I've had plenty of opportunities to record songs from the Great American Songbook, but 'Unchained Melody' has never been one I've picked.
That concerns me, that we're reaching out for perfection, when country music has always been about imperfection.