I’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.
My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.
My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn’t have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.
I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.
Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.
You never know what’s going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don’t know how you’re going to be thought of or seen.
When I do listen to music, I’m more prone to listen to the people I’ve always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‘Jolene’ was a big hit.
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
My mistakes are no worse than yours.
No, I can’t do rap music!
People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.