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

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

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

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

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.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.