I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

I just love motherhood.

I love to sing with different people.

I love to wear boots - and shoes, I don't like at all.

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

I've never turned my back on country music.

It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together.

I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.

And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.

At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.