If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

My mistakes are no worse than yours.