Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.

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

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

You have to be the first, best or different.

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?