Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.

It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.