Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

I have little bones.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

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'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool... but that's just natural.

I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.

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 try not to go around looking like a hag.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

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.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.

I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.

I'll never graduate from collagen.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.

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.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

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.