My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

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

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

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.

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