Dolly Parton
I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.
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.
I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.
When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
I love being busy.
All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'
Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
I try not to go around looking like a hag.
I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.
I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.
A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.
People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.'
God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.
I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.
I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.
I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.
I can't do nothing just a little.
My fat never made me less money.
When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.
There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.
I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.
I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.
I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
My husband says I look like a Q-tip.
I will never retire unless I have to.
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know.
When I get down, I don't waller around for long.
There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
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.
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
I always wanted to be loved.
I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.
I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.
I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.
I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.
I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.
There's nothing like white trash at the White House.
No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager.