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 don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

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

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

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

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.