Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fighting words.

A brave little soldier / I'm a brave little soldier / I must fight, I must win / I'm a brave little soldier / Through hell and back again / I'm a brave little soldier.

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don't know, I'm never there.

Somehow you justify mistakes / Try to find some better way / To solve the problems day to day / In the family

You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.

You take the trouble as it comes / And love 'em more than anyone / Good or bad or indifferent / It's still family

And when it's family, you trust them / And your heart's an open door / When it's family, you tolerate / What you'd kill others for

You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it.

When it's family, you forgive them / For they know not what they do / When it's family, you accept them / 'Cause you have no choice but to