Loretta Lynn

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

How do you measure your value?

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

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 didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.