I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'

You have to be the first, best or different.

When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.