Wanda Jackson

“I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.”

“I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.”

“Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.”

“I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.”

“Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.”

“And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.”

“On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.”

“Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.”

“There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.”

“I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.”

“You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.”

“It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.”

“You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.”

“I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.”

“I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.”

“As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.”

“Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.”

“If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.”

“If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.”

“I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.”