Reba McEntire

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 think it’s a wonderful time for a woman.

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.

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

I think it’s the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I’m not ashamed of that by any means.

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

It’s nice having famous people love you.

[on the movie business] The battles that we face in this business aren’t financial, but they are moral. And I certainly think that the longer you can keep your values, and your morality intact, and keep your head on your shoulders about what is important at the end of the day, you can get the most out of this business and really emerge with something wonderful.

I’ve never been cool and I don’t really care about being cool. It’s just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Take it easy, be a sport. Just remeber life is short.

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician’s life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

The fans are just as crazy. because we have the young fans and the old fans now, so it’s more like double-trouble for us.

I didn’t think my career would last this long, and it’s still going.

I get on really well with Katie (Leung), she’s a really cool girl.

A little bit independent in your walk. A little bit independent in your talk. There’s nothing like you in Paris or New York. You’re awfully easy on the eyes.

We’re not going out there with somebody pretending to be Freddie Mercury. We are what we are now; we’re not what we were then, we’re just going out, playing our songs.

I don’t have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock ‘n’ roll could change anything – I don’t believe that. I’ve changed. Who would have ever thought that I’d end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that’s what I want to be.

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

I only mentioned people in Barbie Dreams that I f**k wit. This isn’t a diss. Yikes. This is culture, this is BIGGIE!!!!! New York!!!! This is FUN. Light hearted fun.