Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.

I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?

In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.