I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I love that country ham. Well you say I'm made just to fit your plans but there's a barnyard shovel pick your hands. If your eyes are on me you're lookin' at country.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.