I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

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