Hank Williams Quotes

My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.

Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, she's just really tired. Of you.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

What surprised me most about fame is how unpleasant it can be. I used to think it was going to be so fun. I got excited about the parties. You don't anticipate friends being jealous of you and critics giving your music bad reviews. Media and rumors - that stuff hurts.

Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.

You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled.

I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

Everyone in my family is pretty much tone-deaf.

I don't sing. I'm the worst singer in the world!

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.

[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best.

Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.

Show me a husband who keeps his thoughts to himself, and I will show you a frustrated wife.

I have nine Grammy Awards. I wouldn't have that if I couldn't sing.

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.

I think Elvis Presley is a crooner. Even people like Eddie Vedder, I hear him sing some things and I go "wow". Seal, that kind of nice voice, too.

One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.

What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.

The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me.