If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.