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.

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.

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

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

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