I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'

You either have to be first, best, or different.

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.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.