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.

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

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

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

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

You have to be different, great or first.