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.
Anne Murray
I am a rabid Maple Leaf fan.
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.
I wanted Rosemary Clooney to like 'Hey There.'
It's hard for performers to grow old gracefully, but I'm trying.
I want to build a house in Indian Harbour, that's all.
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.
Growing up, I heard nothing but the best music.
Canadian tours are big and difficult, because of the large spaces between cities.
I was at home, pregnant, and everybody was telling me, 'You're on a roll, don't have another baby, wait a while.' Looking back, I realize my career was peaking when I was having babies, for God's sake!
When my son was in his teens, he was a really fine drummer. He was asked in an interview if he would consider going into the business. And he said, 'Why would I ever go into the business that took my mother from me?'
Turbines are a curiosity, but only once.
We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.
Strings have been a part of my career and my albums since the very first day. 'Snowbird' had beautiful strings.
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.
That's the God's truth - I've forgotten that I was famous. I guess it's laughable.
My parents were into The Mills Brothers, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughn, and all those people sung the most wonderful songs - and even when I got into rock 'n' roll, that stayed with me.
It is important what you look like, period. So, I grew up and realized, 'Just put on the shoes and wear some nice clothes and forget about it and try to sing well.'
I loved the Everly Brothers better than anybody.
You have to be real sharp when you're touring. I'm dull normal at home. So when I come off the road, my kids have to put up with Mom making cracks every five minutes for a couple of days.
I'm originally from Nova Scotia.
I remember when I was doing my first Christmas album, I thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice to find new Christmas songs?' Then I went, 'Are you crazy?' When I decorate my tree I don't want new Christmas songs, I want to hear all the familiar songs!
People want new faces. And I don't blame them. It's just getting difficult for us oldsters to get anyone to take notice.
I was a real work-horse.
That worried me early on in my career - that I would change. If I went to New York or Los Angeles that I would become somebody I wouldn't like. That person that gets a big head and starts thinking they're more special than anyone else. I never wanted to be that person.
When I was growing up everybody I knew could sing. I had no choice. I had to sing.
I worked all the time and when I say that, I mean I would work for three weeks, come home for a month, and work again, but it would have been nice to take long chunks of time off.
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.
With my kids I just missed so many things, and that's a regret I have.
There are a lot of middle of the road artists of the '70s, who aren't being played anyplace. I think it's unfortunate in a way, because it stifles you sort of, you don't get to as many people but I've had a long and wonderful career, I have no complaints.
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.
I'm a little more interested in smelling the roses, playing more golf and tennis and more cross-country skiiing and doing stuff with my kids.
I'm always in bare feet.
I did go to university and I did teach school for a year.
It's a great time to do a show, at Christmas time. People are by and large in a Christmas frame of mind.
I'm called Anne because my mother, who was devout, prayed to St. Anne every day of her pregnancy with me.
Wind turbines are imposing structures and definitely not the kind of thing one wants to see from a golf course.
Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either.
When I was going through all the divorce things, that was really hard to discuss, because nobody wants to talk about their failures. Nobody wants to talk about how painful those kinds of things are.
I have to tell you, I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have golf. That's why I work so hard keeping my core strong.
When I was a kid, it was just a wild dream to think that I would've had a career like this, and I really didn't think that was possible. But things just kind of started to roll, and I was caught up in it, and I went with it.
The first hit record is easy compared to the second one. You've got to have two for momentum. If you have three, you're pretty much made. But one isn't enough.
Retirement isn't what it used to be. It used to be you retired and you disappeared off the face of the Earth. Now you have social media. I keep in touch with all my fans. It's great.
Suddenly, I was in a category with Barbara Striesand, Olivia Newton John, Donna Summer, Carley Simon - it was kind of neat for me.
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.
I don't sing songs on albums that I don't like.
I've been playing Sunrise for years. I love it there. It's so loosey-goosey. I was up at the Kravis Center and it was, like, 'Oh my God!' All the minkdraggers, you know?
I had to sing. I couldn't not sing. If it was singing to a living room full of people or an auditorium, it didn't matter. I had to sing. I was meant to sing.
I do duets with folks like Randy Goodman, Aaron Neville, Bryan Adams, people like that.
I don't want to look out and perform in front of people who are drunk. I did that when I was playing little clubs.
