If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.