My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.