I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

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.

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

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

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

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.