No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

I count my blessings far more than I count my money.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Everybody has a purpose.