I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

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

Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?

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

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

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.