Quotes by Tanya Tucker

• Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
• 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.
• Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
• 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.
• 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.
• That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
• 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.
• It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
• 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.
• 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.
• I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
• I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
• 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 do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.
• 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.
• Everybody has problems.
• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
• 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.
• But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.
• 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.
• And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
• If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.