I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried.

I do wear wigs. ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that.

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.

People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'