I’ve been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

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

I’ve been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

You ain’t supposed to get salmon when they’re swimming upstream to spawn. But if you’re hungry, you do.

There’s more women stars in Nashville all the time. They’re proving they can do the job the same as a man.

You’re the reason our kids are ugly.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I’m used to having a few guns around to protect me.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I’m headstrong, don’t like people telling me what to do.

Some of these new country singers aren’t really country. I think some of them ought to be singing pop music and just leave country alone. You don’t have to see them, you can hear it. It is what it is, I guess, but I’d still rather they just let the ones that sing country sing country.

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.