If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.