[on "To Heck with Old Santa Claus"] I wrote that because I got mad at my husband one Christmas. I sent him down to the KMart because bibles were on sale. So he bought me a bible - and got his girlfriend silk pants and a silk shirt. When I heard about that, we had a good ol' hot Christmas.

[on Patsy Cline] She was my closest friend. She was the only person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.

[on starting out in her career] We would drive to a radio station and I would go in with my record. Some of them would say they couldn't play it, or they wouldn't play it, and some of them played it while I was there. I just sat there until they played it. I imagine they thought to themselves, "This girl is going to stay here all night if we don't play her record.".

I didn't know I was talented. Everybody in Butcher Hollow sang, it seemed like.

I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.

When I was 14 I lived like a 35-year-old, and when I was 35 I lived like a 14-year-old.