I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

I can't do nothing just a little.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.