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

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.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

Money ain't everything.