I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.

Is forever longer than always?

I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.

Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'

If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.