Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.