A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.

There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory. I love what I've done and I just can't stand to see what they're doing to it. But I've learned to live with it because that's what they've done. They've come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It's not country anymore.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!