I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

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.

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

I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.