Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.

Home is anywhere I hang my hair

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.