I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.
I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.
People like bluegrass. It’s had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.
Everybody has a purpose.
Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.
I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.
The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.
God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.
I’m a proud person. I’m not vain. I look at it like it is. If you’ve got the money and you’re going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.
Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can’t be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.
Less is not more. More is more.
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.
I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.
I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.
I’m the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I’m old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried...
I’m on a seefood diet. I see food, I eat it.