Tanya Tucker Quotations

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.

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

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

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

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

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

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

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.

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't 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.

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

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

We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

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.

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

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

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

Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

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

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

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

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

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.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

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.

Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)?

Sixty-four years with the same dude? I dont think so, ... Three years and youre out. I said itd be a good time, not a long time.

He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

People talk about how you have to 'balance your life.' You can't that's a lie. It's just impossible to feel good about yourself all the time. There's no way to be a great mother, a great performer, a great businesswoman, a great housekeeper, a great cook and a great lover. You just can't do it all, but you do the best you can. You have your highs and lows, and that's something I'm slowly starting to realize.

There was a lot of things I probably wouldn't do now, you know, if I had it to do over again and I'm sure he feels the same way.

If I have any spare time, I do enjoy riding cutting horses, or just everyday things mostly. Shopping with my kids or going to Disney World.

ice cold water on me and started yelling at me.

And I know there's probably a lot that aren't so educated out there, but you've got to find the right doctor and have your family close by.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

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

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

Everybody has problems.

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