I try not to go around looking like a hag.

When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

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.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.