All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

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.

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

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread...stale and dry.