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.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

I think that I'm perfect.

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

I have two favorite colors - white and yellow. White makes me feel light and airy. Yellow makes me happy.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.