I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I love that country ham. Well you say I'm made just to fit your plans but there's a barnyard shovel pick your hands. If your eyes are on me you're lookin' at country.

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

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.

Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.