Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

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

I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.

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.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

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