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

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

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.

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

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