And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire. Tanya Tucker More Quotes by Tanya Tucker More Quotes From 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 singingmothersight Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981. Tanya Tucker policecuttingnight Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself. Tanya Tucker friendspeoplethinking Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. Tanya Tucker vocabularykindfeelings If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested. Tanya Tucker titanscowboynot-interested We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch. Tanya Tucker acresbeautiful Everybody has problems. Tanya Tucker problem I have always been the life of the party. When I got to the point where I wasn't anymore, I knew something was wrong. I didn't know what it was. Once you figure it out, you can start to fix the problem. It's a day-to-day struggle. Tanya Tucker partyproblemstruggle But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help. Tanya Tucker medicationhelping Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house. Tanya Tucker house The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Dont you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got. Tanya Tucker blessedbeautifulpeople That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist. Tanya Tucker erasgrew-upweak We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever. Tanya Tucker rock-and-rollrockscountry Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way. Tanya Tucker expressiontryingtwo My dad was always my manager as far as I was concerned, even when I had another manager. At times he let me go with someone else who he thought could take me to another level when he couldn't, and he was right. But they were in it for another reason. He was in it because he wanted to see me succeed no matter what, and he made decisions based on being a dad as opposed to a manager. Tanya Tucker dadlevelsdecision 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 startingsongfirsts Time just exposed the fact that he was my true love, he was the love of my life… If I had made a different choice, things might have turned out differently. And we probably would have still been together. [But] I was too young. Tanya Tucker entertainment Every now and then I think about him in the cold ground and I think, ‘Wow, what a magnificent contribution he made, not just to music… But his contributions to people. I’ve never seen him turn an autograph down. Tanya Tucker (right) and her daughter Presley. (Brad Newman) Never seen him raise his voice to anybody, as far as a fan. Well, to me a few times. [But] I raised it right back! But you know, he really did contribute to my life and it was some of the [best] three years that I’ll never, ever forget. Tanya Tucker entertainment 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 meyouresearchpeople
