If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.

I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.

The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it.