If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.

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

There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

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.

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

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