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

I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.

Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.

I want more out of life than I've gotten.

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

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

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.