I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.

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.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.