The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

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