ANNE MURRAY

I just love when I'm playing Northumberland and I'm on the back nine and I see the water and the link bridge.

Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year.

I think people who don't go away to university are missing out on one of the great life experiences. You meet people from so many different places and it's the shared life experience that helps you grow.

There was a time when I never would have considered, ever, doing television commercials for records. I would never do that. That was something that you did for K-Mart.

As far as k. d. lang is concerned, she grew up devouring my music. She sent me a song when she was 8 years old, and she says I never wrote back.

That's the God's truth - I've forgotten that I was famous. I guess it's laughable.

I don't sing songs on albums that I don't like.

I was going to become a teacher.

I knew it was time to pack it in. I was in my 60s... I could still sing but I didn't want to get to that point where people feel sorry for me.

People are going to a place like Pugwash and that whole area to escape from industry, to have the serenity of the surroundings and the beauty.

It's hard for performers to grow old gracefully, but I'm trying.

You know what I find truly amazing? I haven't had a hit record since the mid-'80s, and still people show up to pack up the places I'm playing.

Our television set was in the bedroom. I can picture my mother fast asleep, exhausted from driving my brothers around. I can picture the Maple Leafs playing the Canadiens. One or the other would always be on the CBC on Saturday night.

The first time I remember going to Nashville was in 1971 back when 'Snowbird' was a hit and I performed at the Grand Ole Opry.

None of the boys from my town made it in the N.H.L.

I don't sing as well as I used to. Nor does anyone else in their 60s.

I've never found it any tougher being a woman than a man, but I've always been the boss.

With my kids I just missed so many things, and that's a regret I have.

Growing up, I heard nothing but the best music.

No. I'm not. Nor have I ever been, although I know there are people who thought I was. I do have a lot of women friends, but none of them is gay, nor have they ever been.

When I sing a pop song, I'm a pop singer. When I sing a country song, I'm a country singer. I've been very lucky to cross over, because by doing that, you can't be pigeonholed.

People want new faces. And I don't blame them. It's just getting difficult for us oldsters to get anyone to take notice.

You have to understand that I never thought I would have a career in music. That kind of thing didn't happen. Not for women, not in Canada, not in the 1960s. It was something I did for fun.

Strings have been a part of my career and my albums since the very first day. 'Snowbird' had beautiful strings.

I am a rabid Maple Leaf fan.