I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

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

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 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!'

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.