Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

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.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

You have to be the first, best or different.