I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

You have to be the first, best or different.

I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

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.