"I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child."
"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."
"You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got."
"You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do."
"Who wants to be married to a grandfather?"
"When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings."
"When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country."
"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."
"When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up."
"We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean."
"We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign."
"There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man."
"There's always been a man telling me what to do."
"The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch."
"The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires."
"Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience."
"Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead."
"Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?"
"Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown."
"Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified."
"My life has run from misery to happiness."
"My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him."
"Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped."
"Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards."
"In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent."
