And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
Tanya Tucker

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.
Tanya Tucker

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.
Tanya Tucker

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.
Tanya Tucker

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Tanya Tucker

Everybody has problems.
Tanya Tucker

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.
Tanya Tucker

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.
Tanya Tucker

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.
Tanya Tucker

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
Tanya Tucker


I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
Tanya Tucker

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.
Tanya Tucker

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.
Tanya Tucker

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
Tanya Tucker

If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
Tanya Tucker

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
Tanya Tucker

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.
Tanya Tucker

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
Tanya Tucker

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
Tanya Tucker

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
Tanya Tucker