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

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.

If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?

I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.

I have just one tube of lipstick, but it's as big as a can of hairspray.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.