It’s hard to be a
DIAMOND
in a
RHINESTONE
world.
“Don’t let these
false eyelashes
lead you to believe that I’m as phony as I look ’cause I run
true and deep.”
FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE.
AND DO IT ON PURPOSE.
I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin’ my thing,
my own way.
IF YOU TRY TO FOLLOW EVERYONE ELSE
and be like everyone else, before you know it you’re gone. You’re not going to find yourself again; you’ll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.
We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but
WE DO THE BEST WE CAN.
No one is ever successful at
everything
that they do.
We need to be
accepting
of ourselves in how we are.
HE’S ALWAYS LOVED WHO I WAS, AND I LOVED WHO HE WAS, AND WE NEVER TRIED TO CHANGE EACH OTHER.
—on her marriage to Carl Dean
I DON’T CARE WHO PEOPLE ARE AS LONG AS THEY’RE
THEMSELVES,
WHATEVER THAT IS.
EVERYONE SHOULD BE WITH WHO THEY love.
I AM NOT GAY, BUT IF I WERE, I WOULD BE
the first
ONE RUNNING OUT OF THE CLOSET.
I’M PROUD OF MY HILLBILLY, WHITE TRASH BACKGROUND. TO ME THAT
keeps you humble;
THAT KEEPS YOU GOOD.
AND IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY TO OUTRUN IT—IF THAT’S WHO YOU ARE,
that’s who you are.
I DON’T LIKE TO GIVE ADVICE. I LIKE TO GIVE PEOPLE INFORMATION, BECAUSE EVERYONE’S
life is different,
AND EVERYONE’S
journey is different.
I KNOW WHO I AM,
I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do.
I KNOW WHAT I’M CAPABLE OF
and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.
I still close my eyes and go home—
I CAN ALWAYS DRAW FROM THAT.
I’m comfortable in
MY OWN SKIN,
no matter how far it’s stretched.
“I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that.
I never wanted to change,
I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.”
It’s you
WHO SETS YOUR STRIDE!