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 get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread...stale and dry.

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

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

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 wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.