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.

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

Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

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

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.