The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain! - Dolly Parton

She talked about working around the clock and barely having time to eat, about sweating blood trying to make enough money to pay the band, the production staff, the promoters, the organizers, and the concert spaces, “not to mention forking out a regular four figures on your spangly outfits.” “It’s not a normal way to live,” Ruthanna had said. Tell me more, was all AnnieLee could think.

I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman.

Sometimes you could see the scars and sometimes you couldn’t. But everybody had them.