You either have to be first, best, or different.

You have to be the first, best or different.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'

My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.