I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.

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

If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.

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

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.

There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.

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