If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

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

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

My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.