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.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

You have to be different, great or first.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

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

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.