When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.