I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

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've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.