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.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

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

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

You're the reason our kids are ugly.

If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.

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.