If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

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 will never retire unless I have to.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period.

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'

It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

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.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

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

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

I don't kiss nobody's butt.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

I love Velveeta cheese.

I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

My fat never made me less money.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

When I get down, I don't waller around for long.

I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

I always wanted to be loved.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

I love being busy.

I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.