It's important that you take care of yourself and blow off steam in the right way. Don't let some woman walk in and say, "hey, goodbye!" and take your man. Kill her if you can! I'm only kidding.

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

There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.

Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

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

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