My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little.

Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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.

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.