I Won All The Blue Ribbons For

My Mother Used To Paper Pictures From Movie Magazines On The Wall Of Her Bedroom. When I Was Born, She Looked At Those Pictures To Decide On A Name For Me. Claudette Colbert's Picture Was Up There And So Was Loretta Young's. She Decided Loretta Was The Prettiest Name, So I Was Named After Her.

I Think Charley Pride Has Been One Of The Best Things To Happen To Country Music, To Prove It Belongs To Everybody.

Mommy Smoked But She Didn't Want Us To. She Saw Smoke Coming Out Of The Barn One Time, So We Got Whipped.

Sometimes They Work, And Sometimes They Just Won't. Sometimes You Get Hung Up On Them. When That Happens, You Just Throw It Back, And Maybe Come Back To It Two Or Three Weeks Later.

I've Seen Country Music Go Uptown, Like We Say, And I'm Proud I Was There When It Happened.