I think that I'm perfect.

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

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

Every day I pray about all I do.

My grandpa was a preacher.

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.

I'm a workin' girl.

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.

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 was always a junk food person, still am.

I can't do nothing just a little.

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

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

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

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 write for myself things that I've gone through.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

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.

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

I'm just a simple country girl.

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

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

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.