The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?
My life has run from misery to happiness.
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.
I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.
I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.
I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.
I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.
I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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.
I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
I believe in education and wish I had a better one.
