If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?

I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

I do have a natural sense for business, which I think I get from my Dad.

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.

People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'