Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

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.

I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.

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