I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

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.

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 get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

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.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.