I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

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

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.