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've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.

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

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

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.

You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I love that country ham. Well you say I'm made just to fit your plans but there's a barnyard shovel pick your hands. If your eyes are on me you're lookin' at country.