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.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. We will always remember her fondly.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.