Quotes from Lorrie Morgan

I have been a daughter, a bride, a mother, a divorcee, a widow, a single mother, a grandmother, a breadwinner, and, ultimately a survivor.

I love Joe Galante. He gave me the shot in this business that no one else would give me. And I will always love Joe Galante. Always. Regardless of what comes tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now. He, along with God, allowed me to make a lot of my dreams come true. And I'll always love Joe Galante for that.

You just have to kind of roll with the punches and say, 'Think what you want to think. I know who I am.'

I am a shoe freak.

When you think about the greats, like Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold and George Morgan, there really isn't that much of a difference between their singing and Andy Williams and Perry Como. It's just the instrumentation that was a lot different.

Country music is therapy - it's therapy for the rural world.

I've reached an age where I don't want to be on the road all the time.

That concerns me, that we're reaching out for perfection, when country music has always been about imperfection.

I think I'm ready for the success I'm having.

Keith treated me like queen. In the three years we were married, he never said one ugly word to me, never raised his voice. We had disagreements and arguments but he was so gentle and caring. As much as I had to take care of him, he took care of me in other ways.

Here's the good thing about it: I don't have to depend on some jerk disc jockey whose wife doesn't like me, and has threatened him not to play my songs. That is the honest-to-God truth. That's it in a nutshell. The fans don't have to go through a disc jockey or a radio station that loves me, or that doesn't like me. They can download the music.

Once a redneck always a redneck.

There's not anybody physically or even mentally that would even compare with Keith Whitley. He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen in my life, from his toes to the top of his hair.

There comes a time in everybody's musical career that you have to regroup and reinvent yourself.

You definitely will not hear any hip hop at my show. Not that I don't think there's an art to that, but it's not for me.

Every Tom, Dick and Harry is making records. They have one hit and are gone forever.

And I knew, nothing I could say or do Could come close to thankin' you for your love And I could try for the rest of my life But that wouldn't be half enough

I understand what it was to be out there on the road without a tour bus and without fans.

I got the reputation of being hard to work with. It has been hard for me to get rid of it.

Years ago, when I first fell in love with country music, part of the reason was that it was so much from the heart. It was so simple, lyrically, everything. It was just the simplicity.

He was not only instrumental in giving me the confidence I needed as an artist, but through the years he has given many other up-and- coming stars the confidence and true grit they have acquired by loving and listening to the music of Keith Whitley.

I felt like 'What Part of No' was very chauvinistic. I thought men would take it the wrong way and turn against me. I'm happy to say I was proven wrong.

I've had a pretty large LGBTQ fanbase for most of my career. When I was asked to co-headline South Carolina Pride back in 2014 along with Deborah Cox, I'll tell ya, that crowd sang every word to every song. I couldn't believe it and it was probably the most fun I've ever had on stage.

I think when tragedies happen a lot of people go to therapy, psychiatrists, whatever, because they need to have someone to talk to. There's thousands of people a night that I get to talk to, by way of my music.