God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

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.

It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.