My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

You can't really make people be any different than what they are.

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 am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!