I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

I'm just a simple country girl.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I can't do nothing just a little.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.

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'm a workin' girl.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

My grandpa was a preacher.

Every day I pray about all I do.

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

I think that I'm perfect.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

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.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.

I've never been a feminist.

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

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

I just don't have time to get old!

I always think of myself as a working girl.

Money ain't everything.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

I think everyone should be with who they love.