Tanya Tucker
Tanya Tucker
Tanya Denise Tuckeris an American female country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of Top 10 and Top 40 hits. She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association award nominations, and hit songs such as 1973's "What's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth10 October 1958
CitySeminole, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People talk about how you have to 'balance your life.' You can't that's a lie. It's just impossible to feel good about yourself all the time. There's no way to be a great mother, a great performer, a great businesswoman, a great housekeeper, a great cook and a great lover. You just can't do it all, but you do the best you can. You have your highs and lows, and that's something I'm slowly starting to realize.
Sixty-four years with the same dude? I dont think so, ... Three years and youre out. I said itd be a good time, not a long time.
Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)?
There was a lot of things I probably wouldn't do now, you know, if I had it to do over again and I'm sure he feels the same way.
The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't 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.
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.
If I have any spare time, I do enjoy riding cutting horses, or just everyday things mostly. Shopping with my kids or going to Disney World.
ice cold water on me and started yelling at me.
And I know there's probably a lot that aren't so educated out there, but you've got to find the right doctor and have your family close by.